Home EDITORIAL BY JOHN LADLEY SOA EDITORIAL: JOHN LADLEY Welcome to the second issue of the Data Strategy Journal.  Like other sophomore efforts, we are benefiting from lessons learned from our first issue.  Most notably we are delighted at the response of readers willing to participate in the collection of pertinent data.  In general we were well received, but at the same time, we are addressing any critiques that provided positive feedback.  Thanks again.  Read More >> SOA ISSUE EXPERTS' ROUNDTABLE DSJ EXPERTS' ROUNDTABLE According to Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow, authors of Understanding SOA with Web Services, service oriented architecture is “an architectural style that guides all aspects of creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle, as well as defining and provisioning the IT infrastructure that allows different applications to exchange data and participate in business processes regardless of the operating systems or program... Read More >> DATA SERVICES: RESOLVING THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE BY JIM BEAN DATA SERVICES CHALLENGE Data Services - Resolving the Integration Challenge with SOA Integration solutions are often classified as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). However, if we think deeply about the examples previously provided, I suggest that this is an incorrect classification. The problem is less about the applications and more about sharing and reusing the underlying data. Read More >> AVOIDING SOA MISTAKES: KEN KARACSONY SOA: AVOIDING COMMON DM MISTAKES One of the great promises of service oriented architecture is to ameliorate data integration challenges faced by many organizations struggling to integrate disparate technologies and systems.  While adopting SOA can be extremely advantageous in easing data integration woes, it is important to understand that SOA is not a replacement for fundamental information management practices.  Indeed, the benefits of SOA are predicated on intelligent information management practices and policies.   Read More >> DATA STRATEGY JOURNAL CARTOON DATA STRATEGY JOURNAL WELCOME BY DANIELLE GRILLI WELCOME TO DSJ ISSUE 2 Welcome to the second issue of the Data Strategy Journal.  Every other month DSJ brings you articles, interviews, analysis, presentations, case studies, and anything you tell us you are interested in with regard to data and business strategy.  Last month our focus was Data Governance.  We received a great response and some wonderful suggestions.  This month we are focusing on Service Oriented Architecture.  Hopefully you will find this issue just as useful as our last. Our mission is ... Read More >> BEST PRACTICES SURVEY SOA SURVEY RESULTS Part of the DSJ mission is research.  This includes surveys as to who is doing what and whether or not they are having any success.  Our survey for SOA was sent to our Best Practices Council, a growing body of technology users and beneficiaries.  Below is our detailed presentation of the findings, and a recap of responses.  However, for the time constrained reader, I’ll present a summary. Read More >>   ARTICLE BY DOUG STACEY DATA SERVICE DESIGN Designing a data service interface  If you are anything like me, as a data professional you’ve experienced many frustrations in your career due primarily to things that have occurred or choices that were made long before you were around (over which you had no influence and with which yo... Read More >> SOA CASE STUDY: JOE LEFAIR SOA BEST PRACTICES Service oriented architecture concepts have gained significant traction in IT environments during the past several years.  When applied effectively, these concepts hold the promise of  more flexible development and operational environments, and significant opportunities for improved software reuse and overall IT productivity. Many of the implementations of SOA to date have been centered on transaction-level user applications and analytical an... Read More >>   ARTICLE BY ANDREW FLOWER LEVERAGING MDM AND SOA Leveraging MDM and SOA for operational and analytic data integration When I sat down to write this article on service oriented data warehousing (SODW), I had to reflect on the work and struggles I have had in data warehousing and data integration, the people I had learned from, and some of the failures trying to push these concepts before they were technically feasible.  I kept coming back to two people I learned a great deal from over the years, directly and indirectly. Read More >> BUSINESS STRATEGY BY CHUNKA MUI SHOCKWAVES FROM THE EDGE Part 2 of 4 Technology innovations are enabling sophisticated data strategies with the potential to reshape products, upend customer relationships, and transform the role of the IT organization.  This four part series explores (1) the new context, (2) the opportunities enabled, (3) the implication on trust and customer relationships and (4) the implications for the IT organization.  The serie... Read More >>   THE CONSULTANT: GRAEME SIMSION MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL In my last column, I related the story of my friend “Jane” the psychiatrist who, in a moment of weakness, criticized the way that her friends were bringing up their teenage kids, and offered some free advice on how to do it better.  Needless to say, the advice was not taken and the friendship suffered.  After drawing some lessons for consultants, I concluded with a question: If you were the parents of those troubled adolescents, what would you have liked Jane to do? In the absence of ... Read More >>

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