Uniform data access is a computational concept describing an even-ness of connectivity and controllability across numerous target data sources.
Necessary to fields such as
Enterprise Information Integration
Enterprise information integration (EII) is the ability to support a unified view of data and information for an entire organization. In a data virtualization application of EII, a process of information integration, using data abstraction to ...
(EII) and
Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices. Technical standards for EDI exist to ...
(EDI), it is most often used regarding analysis of disparate data types and data sources, which must be rendered into a
uniform information representation, and generally must appear
homogenous
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image. A homogeneous feature is uniform in composition or character (i.e., color, shape, size, weight, height, distribution, texture, language, inc ...
to the analysis tools—when the data being analyzed is typically
heterogeneous
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image. A homogeneous feature is uniform in composition or character (i.e., color, shape, size, weight, height, distribution, texture, language, i ...
and widely varying in size, type, and original representation.
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Data management