The heart of an IOA is what we have chosen to call the middleware components. This set of software components connects the BI applications to the various BI data sources in a reliable way, delivering data to the applications in a timely manner. This is not a trivial task to achieve, requiring more than just [...]

When you think about it, nearly all the data used by BI applications comes from elsewhere. This is why the Information Oriented Architecture specifically highlights connections to operational systems and to the cloud. The cloud doesn’t just imply corporate applications running in the cloud or corporate data residing in the cloud It also means data [...]

  Below is an up-to-date illustration of the Information Oriented Architecture. “What’s that?” you may be asking. Well if you’ve read any of my recent blogs you might remember my suggesting once or twice that there ought to be an Information Oriented Architecture to complement and integrate with the Service Oriented Architecture. I was deeply [...]