From Dave Linthicum's InfoWorld Blog: :"Unlike SOA, which can support real-time data movement, data integration (typically) provides adequate business information (data replication) without up-to-the-minute access of information. In many cases, the data is weeks, even months, old, and the data mart or data warehouse is updated through antiquated batch, extract-aggregate-and-load, processes. Indeed this is the way integration is done today, using a data integration product or in most cases no product at all. When I was doing research for my last book, for instance, I found that FTP was still the primary form of data integration.  [...]"

tags: eii, soa