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"Consider the humans, " says Billy Cripe in the latest installment in his series on collaboration. "After all it is we-the-meat that actually create and use information. It is the meat part of life which can transmogrify data to information to knowledge to action."

Using Gartner's ho-hum list of EA pitfall as a springboard, Brenda Michelson has complied a list of pitfalls contributed -mostly via Twitter -- by members of the greater EA community. Good stuff!

"Often BI is thought of in terms of a technology solution provided by IT," writes Oraclenerd guest blogger Ted Simpson. "Less often it is thought of in terms of a functional solution provided by various report writers and developers employed across an organization. Less often still, BI is thought of in terms of a sustained function of the executive team. Obviously, it is all three of these working together. Everyone knows that and speaks and writes about it everywhere. So why are many BI projects less than successful?"

Pat Shepherd's new white paper introduces the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard and the SCA capabilities in Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

"The challenge for product teams is finding a balance between keeping users happy with incremental updates and cajoling them into accepting truly innovative features " says Jake Kuramoto.

DeltaLounge's Peter Paul shares links relevant to the release of SOA Suite 10.1.3.5