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The most basic yet challenging problem of business integration is reconciling differences between data and messages within the enterprise. Enterprises have multiple application systems that hold data related to the data in other applications. The problem is the way in which those data are expressed - the semantic (or meaning) and syntactic (or format) incompatibilities between the disparate data models and representations used by applications. In a way, the data model for all of these different bits and pieces is inconsistent. The crucial role of transformation in a business integration strategy is to be able to map these inconsistent data formats and data models into common objects that can be shared among the various applications. The role of data transformation is crucial, because at each and every step of a business process, transformation of the data is typicall... (more)