Manual Mapping Slows Data Integration Effort.

The article reports on the slow phase of process integration caused by manual data-mapping requirements following the merger of Credit Union Australia Ltd. (CUA) and Australian National Credit Union (ANCU). Barry Los, CIO of the merger company, stated that data is being migrated from the ANCU's financial applications to the CUA's mainframe-based system. An analyst from Sydney-based market research firm Hydrasight P/L comments that integration projects that follow mergers are a CIO's worst nightmare due to the complexity of data sets for integration.