Saturday, August 23, 2008

Data Services blog is back

You didn't see any activity on this blog since last June. I first get married beginning of July, then was on vacation in the South of France and then recently moved to the US in the Washington DC area.

I now have Internet at home since yesterday and I'm ready to go on with all these exciting news and trends about Data Services and Data Access in general.

Stay tuned! Eric Samson.

Data Services blog is back

You didn't see any activity on this blog since last June. I first get married beginning of July, then was on vacation in the South of France and then recently moved to the US in the Washington DC area.

I now have Internet at home since yesterday and I'm ready to go on with all these exciting news and trends about Data Services and Data Access in general.

Stay tuned! Eric Samson.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

SOA & data management: Understanding the data service layer

From Steve Karlovitz:

SOAs and data management: Understanding the data service layer

SOA & data management: Understanding the data service layer

From Steve Karlovitz:

SOAs and data management: Understanding the data service layer

The Case for Enterprise Data Services in SOA

Seen on eBizq, this fundamental article from Oracle's Jeff Pollock: The Case for Enterprise Data Services in SOA.

The Case for Enterprise Data Services in SOA

Seen on eBizq, this fundamental article from Oracle's Jeff Pollock: The Case for Enterprise Data Services in SOA.

Data Management for SOA

Seen on EDS blogs: Data Management for SOA.

They wrote somewhere: '... Jill Dyche asserts that "SOA Starts with Data". She advocates creating data services-creating data hubs as services that manage and provide access to master data. Starting with data services has an appeal to IT organizations that feel the need to adopt SOA ...'

This sounds like music to my ears.

I also like the conclusion: "Data management for SOA should be approached as requiring an enterprise logical data model, mechanisms for federation and sharing of data among relatively autonomous service units, and a data management plan that defines responsibilities, flows, master data stores, latency of updates, synchronization strategies and accountability for data integrity and protection. This plan must align with the organizational responsibilities of service units and their data needs, and it must ultimately support an integrated representation of the state of the enterprise-history, current state and future plans."

See also Jean-Jacques Dubray's reaction on InfoQ: Enterprise Data Management, the 3rd face of the SOA/BPM coin?

Enterprise Data Management on Wikipedia.

The Enterprise Data Management Council Web site.