--- title: "Data Integration 101: Why Should I Care About Business Intelligence?" description: Understand what business intelligence can do for your organization and the importance of data integration among those required services. image: https://www.performanceinstitute.org/hs-fs/file-1821828596-jpg/images/data_integration.jpg --- It seems that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. 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By Jeffrey Yefsky - [Home](https://www.5xtechnology.com) - [Blog](https://www.5xtechnology.com/blog-business-intelligence-plus) - [Data Integration & Aggregation](https://www.performanceinstitute.org/blog-business-intelligence-plus/topic/data-integration-aggregation) - Data Integration 101: Why Should I Care About Business Intelligence? ![data-integration](https://www.performanceinstitute.org/hs-fs/file-1821828596-jpg/images/data_integration.jpg?width=280&name=data_integration.jpg "data-integration")To further understand Business Intelligence and what it can do for any particular organization, we must first also identify to term data integration. [Data integration](https://www.5xtechnology.com/data-services/integration-aggregation) is a series of events which happen at the same occurrence. It is the movement of data from one place to another without the loss of a single character, which would change its meaning. This process is also known as **ETL – Extract, Transform, and Load.** This process is used to integrate data from disparate system into a singular data source, such as data warehousing, which is optimized for business intelligence. ### So what does this all mean? It means that a single source for all data would be in a read-only format – it is data that has not been touch by any human being; it reflects data which is generated by an all source system. This is the reason why organizations should protect their data fiercely. **Data is not something that you own; it is your organization’s identity and the roadmap of where your organization will go next.** If you ask the right questions using Business Intelligence, [data integration](https://www.5xtechnology.com/blog-business-intelligence-plus/integrate-sap-businessobjects-data-federation) can unlock the secrets of an organization and allow it to see success and avoid failure. In our next “Why Should I Care About Business Intelligence” series, we will discuss about Key Performance Indicators, and how you can measure the success of an organization based upon this metric. [![](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/92116/7f32cf04-6e55-4225-aa3f-0de1c26c7ead.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/92116/7f32cf04-6e55-4225-aa3f-0de1c26c7ead)   *Originally published October 10, 2014. 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