Over the past few years I’ve been helping a lot of government clients design and implement architectures for information-sharing. When it comes to information-sharing one of the most important aspects is the relationships in the data being shared because it’s those relationships that provide the context to help you understand and utilize the information better. [...]
You can tell that SaaS is really taking off when you start to see the old school software guys starting to offer the capabilities of their products through on-demand services. This article in InformationWeek talks about Informatica (a long time vendor of ETL products) offering data integration as an on-demand service to integrate internal enterprise [...]
Typically when organizations are thinking about migrating to an SOA, the data environment is not one of the top things on their mind. They are more focused on modeling their business processes and figuring out how to create reusable services out of them. That is rather unfortunate because the data plays a big part in [...]
