A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION IN ORGANISATION SECTORS Chisom E. Offia and Malcolm Crowe School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland ABSTRACT Big data development is a disturbing issue that will affect enterprise across various sectors. The increase of data volume, high speed of data generation and increasing rate of different data from heterogeneous sources have led to difficulties in data management. This paper first reviews different aspects of big data management, including data integration and traditional data warehouse, and their associated challenges. The problems include increase of redundant data, data accessibility, time consumption in data modelling and data movement from heterogeneous sources into a central database, especially in the big data environment. We then propose a logical data management approach using RESTview technology to integrate and ana...