GUEST COMMENTARY
The SOA data integration lifecycle
Ed Tittel
07.24.2007
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In a recent tip in the area of data governance in service-oriented architectures, I briefly described the means and methods whereby organizations can take stock of their data assets and whip them into some kind of intelligible, documented and manageable shape. In this tip, I'd like to dig a little deeper into what experts call the data integration lifecycle that's involved in imposing and maintaining data governance, and describe the many and vital roles that XML can play in this process (for which purposes numerous tools vendors already offer commercial packages that do these very things).
To begin, let's review the seven steps that comprise this data integration lifecycle, whereby data is made visible, its value assessed and its forms and uses better understood:
At all steps in this path, XML can play a major role. This is es
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pecially true in steps 1-4, where XML representations and metadata can shed light on data structures, semantics, usage patterns and behavior rules. It also can help to reconcile potentially conflicting views of the realities that such data models. This is where organizations can make huge gains, by making poorly understood or documented aspects of their data assets conscious, correct and part of their governance processes.
About the author
Ed Tittel is a full-time writer and trainer whose interests include XML and development topics, along with IT Certification and information security topics. Among his many XML projects are XML For Dummies, 4th edition, (Wylie, 2005) and the Shaum's Easy Outline of XML (McGraw-Hill, 2004). E-mail Ed at etittel@techtarget.com with comments, questions or suggested topics or tools for review.
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