Tag Archives: Service Oriented Architecture

Does your Data Virtualization Solution Adapt To (Big) Data Problems

Late last year at a company all-hands meeting, the CEO of a large consumer electronics company had a serious mandate. He needed big results and fast. “Competition is really heating up and customer churn is on the rise. I need visibility on-demand – a common view of all enterprise data or else we cannot continue [...]

To Successfully Service-Orient, Data-Orient First!

I have firmly believed that a day would come when it would be you, my fellow integrators, telling me that one needs to data-orient first before benefiting from service-orientation. That day has indeed come! Just recently, I created a quick one question survey and sent it off to a number of application and enterprise architects [...]

‘Half-Baked Ideas’ About Mega-Changes Ahead in the Next Decade (Part 2)

The following are the remaining five “HBIs” (half-baked ideas) I am formulating to explore how SOA, cloud computing, Enterprise 2.0 and virtualization are shaping our information and business environments in the coming decade – the 2010s. These are based on a keynote speech I presented at the recent Cloud QCamp online event. (For HBIs 1-5, [...]

‘Half-Baked Ideas’ for Mega-Changes Ahead in the Next Decade

I just delivered the keynote address for ebizQ’s latest Cloud QCamp, exploring the growing convergence of SOA with cloud computing, Enterprise 2.0 and virtualization, and I thought I would share some salient highlights here at the Perspectives site. There are several key forces converging that are reshaping the way we will do business in the [...]

How About a ‘Service Oriented Architecture’ for Data?

The principles of service oriented architecture (SOA) show a lot of promise for building greater agility and integration into applications. So why not extend these capabilities to the data integration world as well? With initiatives such as data warehousing and master data management (MDM) coming to the fore, data integration needs to be addressed on [...]