Because there is real need! Period! Even after investing heavily in agile architecture approaches such as SOA, IT organizations are finding it extremely challenging to solve complex data integration issues. If you are involved in defining or re-defining a data architecture to enable composite applications and portals to effectively leverage data in an SOA, here [...]
A couple of weeks back I posted on the shortcomings of the application approach to multidomain MDM, so this week let’s take a look at the many reasons why the platform approach is the superior alternative for effective multidomain MDM. The primary technological difference between the two approaches is that MDM “applications” typically employ a [...]
I’m looking forward to doing a Webinar on data virtualization this Thursday, April 22nd. Why? Because this is the single most beneficial concept of architecture, including SOA, and it’s often overlooked by the rank-and-file developers and architects out there. I’m constantly evangelizing the benefits of data virtualization, including integrating data from many and different data [...]
Loraine Lawson did a great job covering the topic of the integration challenges around the cloud and virtualization. She reports that “…a recent Internet Evolution column [by David Vellante] looks more broadly at the cloud integration question and concludes that insufficient integration is holding up both cloud computing and virtualization.” In fact, what currently limits [...]
November 10, 2009 – 12:36 pm
As a CIO, I am a strong proponent of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the components of EA articulated by Steven Spewak. Eight years ago, I would sit with the Informatica R&D Chief Architect and describe what I needed to realize our IT architectural vision, as well as the problems I wanted to overcome. So, what [...]
