Does your SOA produce clean, real-time data that will help drive new revenue?

Canonical information modeling is key to any SOA infrastructure. The process of analyzing and designing an information model that mimics the business is a huge issue for many enterprise architects and must be considered during the initial planning and setup phases of SOA. But information modeling for SOA remains a deadly issue for many organizations because most companies have groups of service teams working in silos which has led to a collision of service semantics.

The Stratecast report, Common Information Modeling in an SOA Environment, explores in depth the Common Information Model (CIM) approach to data exchanges between systems. As Stratecast sees it, the mismatch between data models in diverse OSS/BSS systems is the real reason that integration has been so difficult and the benefits of SOA so hard to achieve. Stratecast analyzes CIM in the context of other integration approaches, discusses its impact, and defines core CIM components. Stratecast's research also examines how using CIM to manage data exchanges among systems resolves the issues much more constructively and much more successfully than manual processes and ad hoc fixes. Finally, Stratecast describes how implementing CIM can boost company revenue and streamline business processes.

Register to download the Stratecast paper, Common Information Modeling in a SOA Environment: Overcoming the Final Obstacle to Rapid Telecommunications OSS/BSS Integration