TITLE: SOA needs common data model

DATE: 22 Feb 2008

SOURCE: IT-Director.com

URL: http://www.it-director.com/tec...

Editor's Summary: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) needs a common data model, writes Philip Howard, director of research, technology, at Bloor Research, which "defines the relationships between disparate data entities within a particular environment, thus establishing the context within which those entities have meaning." In SOA implementations, a common data model is the basis for building data services, and can be used "to replace or augment" a master data management (MDM) system, as well as enable data migration or extract, transform and load (ETL) processes, he writes.
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