December 2008 Archives

Data Integration and Data Abstraction

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By David Linthicum on December 22, 2008 2:02 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
As data integration becomes more complex and far reaching to need to make sense of the hundreds, sometimes thousands of data stores within an enterprise or trading community is becoming critical.   Indeed, corporate data typically exists in many different types... Read More..

Data Integration at the User Interface?

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By David Linthicum on December 17, 2008 1:02 PM 4 0 Vote 0 Votes
When I wrote the EAI book back in the 90s I described several froms of integration, including data level, method or service level, API level, and user interface level.    Addressing the user interface as a point of integration... Read More..

Metadata Requirements for Data Integration...Logical and Physical Design

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By David Linthicum on December 14, 2008 2:44 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The metadata model defines all the data structures existing in the enterprise as well as how those data structures will interact within the application integration solution domain. Once constructed, the enterprise metadata model is the enterprise's database repository of... Read More..

Why Data Integration is more Relevant in the World of Cloud Computing

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By David Linthicum on December 12, 2008 12:49 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Lori MacVittie does a great job in outlining the issues around data integration in the emerging world of cloud computing.  "The issue of data and its integration has not yet raised its ugly head, mostly because very few folks... Read More..

Approaching Data Integration with Data Abstraction

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By David Linthicum on December 9, 2008 8:43 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
he fact of the matter is that data within most enterprises is complex, with very little planning behind it.  Data is at this state due to the number of years that application upon application, thus database upon database, have... Read More..

Amazon's New Information-as-a-Service Offering

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By David Linthicum on December 9, 2008 8:07 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Amazon is now in the live data or information-as-a-service business with their recent Public Data Sets on AWS (Amazon Web Services).  In short, the Public Data Sets on AWS is a centralized repository of public data sets that can... Read More..

Vitria Technology Driving Operational Intelligence

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By David Linthicum on December 8, 2008 6:30 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
It was old home week for me, really, speaking with Vitria's Dale Skeen who was one of the visionaries I followed back in the early days of EAI.     Dale and I did a podcast, which is here on the... Read More..

Vitria Podcast: I Speak with Vitria's Dale Skeen about his vision for BPM, SOA, and the emerging Web.

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By ebizQ on December 5, 2008 9:16 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Listen to or download the 12:57 minute podcast below: Download file---TRANSCRIPT---DL: Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast.  I have Dale Skeen with me today and Dale is the CEO of Vitria .  And Dale is a visionary in the Service... Read More..

Avoid VDA!

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By David Linthicum on December 2, 2008 12:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Avoid VDA! (Vendor Driven Architecture) David S. Linthicum When looking at the technology buying patterns in the world of SOA, there is one common thread. The Global 2000, and many government agencies, are purchasing from their existing vendors, no... Read More..
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