Tag Archives: ESB

If You Have A Data Integration Round Hole, Don’t Buy Square Pegs

I’m often taken aback by the focus on technology as “the solution,” and not as an approach to the solution. One of the reasons I blog for Informatica is because they do focus on the solution and not the tool. Believe me, vendors will sell plenty of tools if they provide those tools in the [...]

The Right Way To Do Data Integration For Applications

On the 1st October 2009, I participated in a webinar “The Right Way to Do Data Integration for Applications,” hosted by David S. Linthicum, a recognized expert in SOA, Cloud computing and Enterprise Application Integration. It was an event that was very well attended and generated a lot of interest from the attendees judging by [...]

Enough Already About “What Is SOA?” Let’s Discuss Some Real-World Myths About SOA…

I am back after a somewhat self-imposed hiatus during which I have been doing some soul-searching, or rather talking to a number of practitioners, experts, thought-leaders and analysts in the integration space. My singular quest was to uncover some real-world myths about SOA. I spoke to a variety of integration experts – enterprise and application [...]

Data and Processes are Intertwined!

In one of my earlier posts I discussed the need for a sophisticated data services-driven technology serving as the foundation for SOA and BPM. When I was poking around the web recently, I ran into a powerful statement by Michael Blechar from Gartner, covered in the DAMA keynote, titled Survival of the Data Management Fittest: [...]