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The estimation of integration costs and knowledge about the influencing factors are particularly important in every integration scenario. As integration tools are developed to fit in many integration scenarios, specific problems of individual customers cannot be considered. Additionally, some integration problems like in case of semantic heterogeneity can hardly be addressed in general. Hence, there is always a certain degree of customizing effort when implementing an integration solution. The goal of the case study presented in this paper is to identify relevant influencing variables that determine the integration effort in a real world data integration scenario. For this purpose different versions of an integration toolset are evaluated with respect to effects on the integration effort based on data that was collected during the project. This data is on the one hand used to specify integration efforts over the entire project term. On the other hand it gives an indication to possible influencing factors for integration costs.
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Bazijanec, B., Gausmann, O., Turowski, K. (2007). Parsing Effort in a B2B Integration Scenario — An Industrial Case Study. In: Gonçalves, R.J., Müller, J.P., Mertins, K., Zelm, M. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability II. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-858-6_85
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