Comments on: Vendor’s “get” the link between MDM and SOA http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2008/12/18/vendor%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cget%e2%80%9d-the-link-between-mdm-and-soa/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:40:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Harvey http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2008/12/18/vendor%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cget%e2%80%9d-the-link-between-mdm-and-soa/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Tim Harvey Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:13:29 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/?p=113#comment-32 First, it has been many years since we have spoken ( I was the President of SynQuest in Atlanta) and hope you have been well. More importantly and while I don't often comment on blogs, yours is especially insightful and I hope more people will see the importance of MDM to successful SOA. I have been in the software industry for more than 20 years now and I am not easily swayed but technology unless there is tangible value to the business. I believe SOA has the opportunity and have seen how SOA utilizing MDM solutions have been able to deliver substantial new functionality to businesses faster and at a lower cost than ever before. While the supply chain is a great example of the requirement for MDM, we have also seen the importance of it in financial services, government and healthcare organizations. These industries have large numbers of legacy applications with critical data that is trapped and not easily accessible for creating new business processes required by the businesses. In addition, too often BPM or BPEL or code based solutions don’t have the tools or solutions for creating data services at the right level of granularity that are required for effective MDM. At XAware, we don’t claim to solve the whole MDM problem but we are focused on providing an open source data integration solution that enables organizations to reduce the time and effort required to create composite data services, which we believe is a key requirement for successful MDM. And, since making our product available in March 2008 under a GPLv2 license, we have had more than 1.7 million visitors to our site, 175,000 downloads and more than 6,500 members join our community, making us one of the fastest grown open source projects for the Enterprise. So, while a lot of people still don’t understand the importance of MDM, thanks to you and others the word is getting out. Warm regards, Tim Tim Harvey tharvey@xaware.com CEO, XAware First, it has been many years since we have spoken ( I was the President of SynQuest in Atlanta) and hope you have been well.

More importantly and while I don’t often comment on blogs, yours is especially insightful and I hope more people will see the importance of MDM to successful SOA. I have been in the software industry for more than 20 years now and I am not easily swayed but technology unless there is tangible value to the business. I believe SOA has the opportunity and have seen how SOA utilizing MDM solutions have been able to deliver substantial new functionality to businesses faster and at a lower cost than ever before. While the supply chain is a great example of the requirement for MDM, we have also seen the importance of it in financial services, government and healthcare organizations. These industries have large numbers of legacy applications with critical data that is trapped and not easily accessible for creating new business processes required by the businesses. In addition, too often BPM or BPEL or code based solutions don’t have the tools or solutions for creating data services at the right level of granularity that are required for effective MDM. At XAware, we don’t claim to solve the whole MDM problem but we are focused on providing an open source data integration solution that enables organizations to reduce the time and effort required to create composite data services, which we believe is a key requirement for successful MDM. And, since making our product available in March 2008 under a GPLv2 license, we have had more than 1.7 million visitors to our site, 175,000 downloads and more than 6,500 members join our community, making us one of the fastest grown open source projects for the Enterprise. So, while a lot of people still don’t understand the importance of MDM, thanks to you and others the word is getting out.

Warm regards,

Tim
Tim Harvey
tharvey@xaware.com
CEO, XAware

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