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Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem
Creating an SOA without a data integration strategy to address semantic challenges will limit an SOA project at best, and doom it to failure at worst. Creating a common model ensures that all the information passed between the various systems and services within the SOA is consistent. This approach can significantly reduce SOA project timescales, lower development costs and avoid problems associated with poor data quality. This paper, written by Dave Hollander, Mile High XML, presents ideas on how you can tackle the data integration problem head on.

OUR PRODUCTS

DataXtend SI
Progress® DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator (SI) solves the problem of validating data exchanges between systems by focusing on the business integrity of data — not just ensuring that the format of that data is correct, but ensuring that data is valid based on business rules for the users and applications that require the data.

DataXtend SID Model Browser
The TM Forum's Shared Information/Data (SID) model provides a common vocabulary for OSS/BSS that creates a bridge between the business and IT. The Progress® DataXtend™ SID Model Browser can jump-start your learning about the SID and speed your organization's adoption of this important industry standard.

DataXtend RE
Progress® DataXtend™ RE (Replication Edition) provides the data replication and data synchronization tools that software developers and enterprise IT departments need to make their applications mobile and available both on-line and off-line.

DataXtend CE
Progress® DataXtend™ CE (Caching Edition) provides a distributed, persistent data infrastructure for applications with real-time requirements. DataXtend CE offers a choice of model-driven or schema-driven development to simplify and accelerate development of enterprise applications that access relational data.

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HIGHLIGHTS

ACORD Selects DataXtend SI
Today’s insurance carriers look to the ACORD organization to guide them in the use of standards and ACORD has selected DataXtend SI to support their new ACORD Standards Framework - specifically their new Information Model. Using the common-model-based approach of DataXtend SI, ACORD will be able to quickly define and publish unambiguous maps between their new model and its existing XML standards.

Application Integration Using the SID
A new book that provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability. Written by TM Forum's John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, this book is the third in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. Purchase your book on Amazon.com.

John Wilmes - Chief Technical Architect of Progress Software Communications Sector Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOA
SOA relies on standards. To fulfill the promise of SOA, you need data interoperability. It stands to reason then that there need to be standards for data interoperability. John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software, shares the good news that the standards are here, and they're ready for prime time.

ice.net selects DataXtend SI
According to Thomas Norberg, CIO, Nordisk Mobiltelefon, building an integrated, agile environment is "...all about information—and how it relates to other information." Find out how they used DataXtend SI to do just that.
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Common Information Modeling in a
SOA Environment:
Overcoming the Final Obstacle to Rapid Telecommunications OSS/BSS Integration
As Stratecast sees it, the mismatch between data models in diverse OSS/BSS systems is the real reason that integration has been so difficult. In this report, Stratecast explores, analyzes and describes how the Common Information Model (CIM) approach can boost company revenue and streamline business processes.

Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. Read this article and learn how a common data model architecture greatly facilitates data translation, data aggregation, rule execution, and other features required for data interoperability.

DataXtend SI: Featured in Upcoming IBM Redbook DataXtend SI: Featured in IBM Redbook
The new IBM Redbook: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance and Management discusses implementing NGOSS-based SOA solutions—such as DataXtend SI—for OSS/BSS transformation and tangible benefits. Read the Executive Overview, or download the complete IBM Redbook today.