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EDITORIAL BY JOHN LADLEY
SOA EDITORIAL: 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. 


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SOA ISSUE EXPERTS' ROUNDTABLE
DSJ EXPERTS 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...
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DATA SERVICES: RESOLVING THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE BY JIM BEAN
DATA SERVICES CHALLENGE 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.


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AVOIDING SOA MISTAKES: KEN KARACSONY
SOA: AVOIDING COMMON DM MISTAKES 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.  

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DATA STRATEGY JOURNAL CARTOON
SOA 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 ...

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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.


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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...

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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...

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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.


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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...
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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 ...

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