The Utopian “E” Convergence - EAI, EII, ETL, MOM, B2Bi, BPM, B2B Gateway, BPI, IDM, MDM,…
All the Enterprise Information Management and Integration applications and approaches coming under one roof!
EAI, EII, ETL, MOM, B2Bi, BPM, B2B Gateway, BPI, IDM, MDM,… before anyone comes up with another acronym and glorifies how effective and important it is, there is a natural happening - An evolution of all the above into a utopian convergence of all the Enterprise Information Management and Integration applications and approaches.
The evolution is here!
1970’s were about simple, manual integration
1980’s were about distributed computing
1990s and early 21st century were about packaged enterprise applications. We saw new concepts, technologies, internet-based computing and tools that increased automation. We saw all the acronyms specified earlier and more emerging. Some made a mark and some didn’t.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerges with the punch line “Let us unite everything everywhere and orchestrate them as services”. It applies successful concepts from the past like Object Oriented development, Component Based Design and Enterprise Application Integration technology to an architectural approach for IT system integration.
Rock your Data Warehousing with SOA
The lazy big giant who serviced the BI world on a periodic basis is getting an overhaul. It’s all set to keep a finger on the pulse of business and ship all the different [BI] pieces that customers require. Service-oriented architecture makes room for data warehousing! This could be the beginning of a perfect marriage.
The relationship between data warehousing and SOA was always complicated. Opposite ends of a spectrum - aggregated vs. federated data, data centric vs. process centric. But how about bringing them together to deliver data as a service? The suitability of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to transform data warehouses into information as a service is addressing this challenge, though with important conditions and qualifications.
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