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. [...]
Two of the most common mistakes I’ve seen by inexperienced people trying to implement SOA are trying to make everything a service and building a huge data model and trying to force everyone to use it. First of all, not every capability needs to or should be exposed as a service. There are overhead and [...]
With the growing popularity of enterprise mashups, more and more organizations are starting to service-enable their data sources, i.e. building web services on top of their data sources to enable access to their data. Unfortunately, most of them are not addressing their underlying data problems first before doing so. I’ve written about this before, talking [...]
Just a follow-up to an earlier post about SOA Data Strategy. The article we wrote is now available on the SOA Web Services Journal here. soa
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 [...]
