Integrating Islands with Landmasses

EAI notes and thoughts

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Data Federation

Data Federation is a ETL term that means integrating data from multiple data sources. A federated system consists of :
  • + A federated server such as DB2
  • + A federated database
  • + Remote datasets
Using a federated system, a single SQL statement can be used to fetch data from remote databases.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Distributed Development: the non-ICC approach

From recent conversations with a fellow consultant, I learnt that the ICC approach had not sold well with a customer. I was surprised as I had always seen ICC as a successful concept. When I probed further for the reason, I came to know that the application groups in the concerned organization were well-staffed and skilled to handle their development and support needs. So they would be responsible for servicing their own needs. For governance on integration development, a Governance Committee would be created to define standards, best practices and guidelines for integration. This committee would also participate in higher level activities such as architecture definition and design reviews. But would not be involved in development.

So, this is an alternative approach to suggest when an organization's culture/environment does not favor an ICC.

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