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In today's difficult economic times, maximizing return on assets is a strategic imperative. Information assets are no exception. Service-oriented architecture (SOA), with its focus on agility and reuse, plays a critical role by accelerating development of new high-business-value applications from existing information assets. However, before new SOA applications can unleash the business value of these information assets, enterprises must first gain an understanding of and control over the assets they have. This fundamental truth is the basis of today's metadata management initiatives. Enterprises must strike a balance between resources spent on managing metadata, and resources spent on leveraging this metadata in their SOA initiatives. In doing so, they must address the ... (more)

Keep to the Original Intent of SOA

The original inspiration for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was vendor neutrality and interoperability among best-of-breed technology components, comprising a cohesive system that is flexible and adaptable enough to meet ever-changing enterprise demands. Yet, recent news from well-regarded SOA technology vendors might lead one to believe SOA is heading in the opposite direction, tow... (more)