Data Integration and Management

SOA and MDM: Chocolate and Peanut Butter or Burnt Cookie?

By dain.hansen on March 26, 2009 9:08 AM

Recently Joe McKendrick asked this question, "Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?" . He argues that in fact they compliment each quite nicely: SOA in and of itself holds little value...

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From EII to Full Data Integration

By Alex Kotopoulis on February 26, 2009 5:25 PM

I never liked the term EII much to describe federated data services such as Oracle Data Service Integrator, so when I read the blog entry “Whatever happened to EII?” by Rob Karel and James Kobielus from Forrester, I felt confirmed...

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Accidental Architecture Insurance

By dain.hansen on November 26, 2008 9:57 AM

Recently, Rick Sherman describes the pitfalls of misaligned data-centric architectures in his article series:, the Accidental Architecture and Recovering from the Accidental Architecture. A word of caution: do not get too wrapped up in the architecture. Some companies will get...

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750 Billion reasons for using Data Management

By dain.hansen on November 20, 2008 8:58 AM

Ok we've seen these blogs all over the place now. We know we're in a recession. We know we want to do more with less in our IT budgets. Tell us something we don't already know. But this is taking...

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Have Oracle Towel Will Travel

By dain.hansen on September 19, 2008 7:05 AM

I am so ready for Oracle Open World - are you? My demos are done; my collateral is all shiny and virtualized; all the sessions are looking superb; I've got twitter hooked up to my facebook which is linked-in to...

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