SOA Practitioners Guide Part 4: Integration Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Abstract:

Integration of business systems is one of the key capabilities that should be provided by IT to enable business agility. This has been the primary objective of all integration effort to-date, however, due to various factors most of the integration efforts have not achieved the expected business benefit. Of course projects with the right executive backing have been quite successful but have never reached their full potential. The objective of this white paper is to demonstrate how adopting SOA enables achieving business agility and flexibility.

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Integration at Home - SOA Architecture

An article describes how integration at home works - integrating PCs, Game consoles, storage, etc. as well as handling multi-media and home automation. This same approach is also very relevant to the services approaches for enterprises. Read more about this iin my this month's DMReview column on Integration at Home - SOA Architecture.

For those in the Silicon Valley - DAMA and the Integration Consortium (IC) have joined forces to bring together their respective organizations to offer a 1 day meeting to explore Data Management & Integration. Presentations from thought leaders from each organization. Additional details are available on IC web site at http://icdama.icmembers.org/.



- Yogish

Integration: Then and Now, Part 1 - SOA Architecture

Integration of business systems is one of the key capabilities that should be provided by IT to enable business agility. This has been the primary objective of all integration effort to date; however, due to various factors most of the integration efforts have not achieved the expected business benefit. Of course, projects with the right executive backing have been successful but have never reached their full potential. The objective of this column is to demonstrate how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables a company to achieve business agility and flexibility. This is a two-part column; this first installment deals with high-level integration architecture based on SOA and the second will focus on SOA governance.

Read more about the first column here.