New Technologies Applied to Data Warehousing - Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data - page 192

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Contextualization and resolution. The context of data relationships across different data sources
and systems can be complex and overwhelming. Data virtualization provides a mechanism by
metadata integration to create contexts that can be applied to data sets as they are discovered for
processing and integration. This creates a natural integration path to create relationship between