Another layer of indirection – Intermediary Pattern

David Wheeler (computer scientist) once said: “Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection”.    This is often mis-quoted with “abstraction” substituted for “indirection”.  I think the main idea remains untouched.  We in computer science use this pattern all the time.  Most of widely used patterns are based in creating abstraction [...]

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The Next Generation Enterprise and Enterprise 2.0

The following is my point of view on a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately.  There are two camps on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.  Each one has some very good points of view and relevant experience on the subject matter.  I will discuss briefly Enterprise 2.0 and how it relates [...]

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Master Data Management in the Service Oriented Enterprise

  With the latest trends in service orientation from an architectural and from business services offering perspective, it has become a high priority for an organization to define and implement a master data management strategy.   The enterprise must look to standardize on management of the transactional, master and transactional data, but often forgotten is the [...]

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Integrating Web 2.0 Services in the Enterprise

We are in need.
 
Hundreds of new platforms, tools, sites, etc… are available to both the public and the enterprise every day. And all of these are marketed as Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0. But do we really need all these?
 
Well, yes, we need it. But we need to bring some sanity to this madness. I [...]

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Services on the Cloud

…. or Integration-as-a-Service 
In the last few years or so I have seen more and more vendors entering the SaaS space.   I have also observed an increase in the number of data sources, both internal and external.
Today we can source services such as data extraction Transformation and Load from Informatica and possible from other companies. 
We also have [...]

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