Using Foundation Services for Efficient Data Management

Companies can realize better value from their Service-Oriented Architecture initiatives by setting up foundation services. Foundation services such as data gateways enable the efficient consumption and querying of data.... This approach enables standardization and integration of data and helps users in an enterprise share data from spreadsheets.

SOA: Bridging Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture

Organizations are increasingly leveraging Enterprise Architecture (EA) to ensure business-IT alignment. EA provides enterprises with a four-dimensional model (Business, Information, Application and Technical Architecture) to analyze... IT-related decisions for business strategies. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) bridges the gap between business and IT through well-defined, business-aligned services by adopting design principles, frameworks, patterns and methods. Learn how SOA bridges Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture.

SOA at the Data Level?

While the strategic concerns of business-IT alignment is being touted as the primary USP of SOA-based initiatives, with a view to making the business processes flexible while leveraging the standards based loosely coupled IT interfaces offered by SOA,... such strategic adoption is still not yet commonplace. However, SOA is quietly making inroads in more tactical projects involving information integration scenarios - legacy data integration, EII, portals, etc.

People: The Biggest Case for Collaboration

How can pre-audit or technology folks have an opinion that is consistent with each other's viewpoint? The key word in this case has got to be 'collaboration'. Unless one is able to partner with the other side, spend some time in understanding the issues,... and discuss the points of contention, a one-sided view will not go very far. We end up into a 'Your word versus mine' mode. However, once you inject the changing regulations and the dynamic business environment, it becomes all the more certain that a one-sided view of Information Risk will be quite short-lived.

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