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Enterprises can’t just build service-oriented architectures and expect that, presto!: promised benefits will materialize. For all their potential, says Larry Alston (who is no longer with Pantero, the company he worked for when he wrote this), SOAs must be able to reconcile inconsistencies among diverse data sources and targets, especially differences in data semantics, to deliver the ROI and agility companies seek. And Alston says there’s one type of technology in particular that can do that: