Executive Update

The Elements of a Service-Oriented Information Architecture

Posted February 28, 2007 | Technology |

In Part I (Vol. 10, No. 4) of this two-part series on service-oriented architecture (SOA), we provided a high-level review of SOA features, discussed some difficulties with a process-oriented SOA, and mentioned the need for unification of information and process in a SOA. In this Executive Update, we examine how this unification can be achieved.

About The Author
Bill Mccrosky
Bill McCrosky is a solution architect in IBM Software Group Cross-Brand Services group. He has been with IBM for nine years and has worked in many technical capacities on customer data warehouse and business intelligence projects. Mr. McCrosky has 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with a concentration in database application development. He is certified as a project manager (PMP) and as an IBM consultant and is one of IBM's leading… Read More
Allen Luniewski
Allen Luniewski is a Senior IT Architect with IBM's Software Group. Dr. Luniewski began his career working at Xerox on the operating system for the pioneering Xerox Star line of workstations and products. In his 14-year stay in IBM's Research Division, Dr. Luniewski worked on projects including a WYSIWYG editor for SGML documents, an object-oriented database, and a system for helping users keep track of the objects on their workstation. He also… Read More
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