Federate Information Management, Application Integration and SOA Initiatives to Gain Business Benefits

ID Number: G00171152

6 October 2009

Jess Thompson Mark A. Beyer

In most organizations, the disciplines of information management operate independent of the disciplines of application integration and service-oriented architecture. We show how senior executives and architects can federate these disciplines through enterprise architecture to gain business benefits.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Current State of the Disciplines

2.1

Application Integration and SOA

2.1.1		The Center of Excellence
2.1.2		Application Integration and SOA Tooling

2.2

EIM

2.2.1		The EIM Team
2.2.2		The Tooling

3.0

Why You Should Federate Disciplines

4.0

How to Federate Disciplines

5.0

Federating the SOA COE and the EIM Team

5.1		Activities the SOA COE and the EIM Team Have in Common
5.2		Information Used by the SOA COE and the EIM Team
5.3		Collaboration

6.0

"Federating" the Tooling

6.1		Using the Technologies Together
6.2		Opportunities to Integrate Data Integration and ESB Suite Tools

7.0

What You Need to Know

Recommended Reading

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Reference Architecture for SOA Application Infrastructure

	Figure 2.	The Role of Data Integration Services in SOA

	Figure 3.	The Network of Data Services

Enterprise Architecture
Application Integration and Middleware Software
Service-Oriented Architecture
Enterprise Information Management

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