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 [...]

Many organizations are gaining better understanding and appreciation for their enterprise data: Data is a valuable asset that is still largely untapped Data is only valuable if it can be used Data value increases greatly with quality and reliability Data integration isn’t just about moving datasets to different destinations. Those different data destinations are likely [...]

  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 [...]

Remember SOA?  With all the talk about cloud computing and business intelligence you would have thought that the concept of SOA had left the planet.  Indeed, there was some pushback on SOA a few years ago, and many enterprises viewed it as too complex and too expensive.  Today we know that SOA actually makes things [...]

If you are an independent software vendor or a service provider, automation of your integration process for on-boarding customers needs to be slick, seamless, and manageable. If customization needs to happen, it needs to be accessible. If customers demand configurable run times, it needs to be flexible (without a brand new project containing a huge [...]