by Andrew White | June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK Well what a day! The week ended on a high for me, and by the looks of it, for the attendees of the conference. Despite the lovely London sunshine a good number of folks remained in the hotel to chat about SOA and application development. [...]
Category: Best Practices MDM SOA Tags: Best Practices, MDM, SOA
by Andrew White | June 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK I sat in a vendor presentation today on SOA. Specifically the presentation was focused on SAP and how SOA oriented was its technology stack. I asked a question of the speaker that was not pointed to SAP, but to SOA in general, and the role [...]
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Category: MDM Multienterprise Semantics SOA Tags: MDM, Multienterprise, Multienterprise BPP, SOA
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Just spotted an interesting article: “MDM: Don’t Give Up“. In the checklist for MDM that is posted, item 1 happens to reinforce one of the two key points I concluded at the end my blog, (A Tale of Two MDM Initiatives): “Do you have [before you go to far with MDM] an information management strategy?” Interesting [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) MDM SOA Tags: Enterprise Information Management (EIM), MDM, SOA
by Andrew White | April 16, 2009 | Comments Off
My colleague, Dan Sholler, just published a really nice note on How to Establish the Foundation of a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Initiative. The connection between SOA and MDM has not been all that clear; SOA as a topic of interest (and design strategy) is quite old, and has roots that go farther back toward model [...]
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by Andrew White | February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
My colleague, Mim Burt, just published an interesting note reporting an analysis of a recent survey of retailers and their use of SOA (See Survey of Retailers’ Use of SOA: An Approach to Application Architecture, Not the Solution Itself). The survey was conducted in Q42008 and included retailers from numerous retail segments, regionally from the [...]
Category: Industry Retail Semantics SOA Tags: Retail, Semantics, SOA
by Andrew White | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Some of my colleagues just published a note updating users on Infor’s recent user group (see Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?) . Did you say, “who’s Infor?” Despite its age, Infor is a $2bn+ business applications vendor that has, over several years, acquired multiple ERP, CRM, SCM and PLM offerings. See archived research Infor [...]
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Category: Business Applications ERP SOA Tags: Business Applications, Infor, SOA
by Andrew White | December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
After my blog on When is SOA, DOA? When it’s without MDM!, a vendor kindly sent me an email that explained how they too had similar ideas regarding the important link between MDM and SOA. Oracle wrote a white paper entitled, MDM as a Foundation for SOA, in November 2007. The SOA Magazine published in [...]
by Andrew White | December 9, 2008 | 5 Comments
We all know that SOA is a design style – a way of developing applications and integration. Adopting SOA leads to a change in the way ‘stuff’ happens. Gartner, and others, have published widely on the different uses of SOA, and I myself wrote a note some time ago on where SOA adds most value [...]
Category: SOA Tags: Data Integration/Synchronization, SOA
