Data Integration Resource Center

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19 Nov 2008

COMING JANUARY 5th! The Semantic Dialogues
Can IT create an OSS/BSS Architecture that will transform the way service providers do business? Follow the story as it unfolds.

Soap Opera

04 Nov 2008

Rolling Out Mobile Broadband Services at Ice.net

Webinar

02 Oct 2008

SOA and NGOSS Contracts: A Practical Approach to Integration

Webinar

30 Sep 2008

Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem

Paper

16 Jul 2008

Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOA
Presented by John Wilmes and
Martin Creaner, President & CTO, TM Forum

Podcast

19 Jun 2008

Observations From Management World
Presented by Ken Rugg

Podcast

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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.

Common Information Modeling in a SOA Environment: Overcoming the Final Obstacle to Rapid Telecommunications OSS/BSS Integration

This report 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.

Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA
Survey Reveals Data Integration Projects to Increase by 2009

Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, information technology (IT) professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. SOA is growing quickly and the survey results identified service oriented architectures (SOAs) as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results. Learn more and read the SOA survey, Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA.

The Right Infrastructure for SOA (pdf)

The right SOA technology can accelerate business breakthroughs and ROI. But what is the "right" technology for your business? This white paper focuses on optimal integration and interoperability as the key and provides a decision framework for evaluating vendors' SOA approach and technology, to help companies get started on a practical SOA today.

XSDs Are Not Enough

The Shared Information/Data (SID) model is a central component of the TM Forum's NGOSS initiative. The TM Forum added XML Schema Definition (XSD) representations to the original UML definitions for the SID model. The SID XSDs are an important advance, providing the basis for developing reusable data models for integrated business applications. But the XSDs are just the beginning. The whitepaper, XSDs Are Not Enough: Leveraging Telco's Abstract SID Information Model for an SOA, discusses the state of the SID model, and need to modify, extend, and update it.

Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration

With the Shared Information/Data (SID) model, the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) has developed a common language for enterprise operations in the telecommunications industry. The SID XSDs are an important advance, providing the basis for developing reusable data models for integrated business applications. Read this whitepaper and get details on how Progress® DataXtend™ SI (Semantic Integrator) provides key support for building robust integrations that gain the value of the SID as a common data model to promote speed, agility, reuse, and data quality in integration projects for operational and business support systems (OSS/BSS).

Scaling SOA through EAI Enhancement and Use of Model-Based Standards

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) increases business agility by providing loose coupling of systems, standards-based technologies, improved vendor interoperability through the use of standards, and highly reusable service interfaces. Get this whitepaper and read how to scale (or build) an SOA while improving productivity, reducing manual governance, and optimizing performance.

Distribute Your Applications and Mobilize Your Data

This white paper presents some ideas and thoughts on how companies, and government, can distribute and synchronize your data across multiple locations, even while you are on the move.

Persistent Data Development Tools validate the Model Driven Architecture Approach (PDF)

The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) defines a platform-independent approach to developing applications.

Comparing Microsoft SQL Server Replication and DataXtend RE Replication for Mobile and Distributed Applications

If you are considering Microsoft replication for a mobile or distributed application, this whitepaper will help you understand which features may and may not be appropriate before investing valuable development resources.

Data Considerations for Service-Oriented Architectures (PDF)

Data access plays a significant role in the success or failure of an SOA initiative. Read how distributed data caching can help.

DataXtend CE for C# Offers Scalability for .NET Applications (PDF)

Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are becoming increasingly popular, but building large scale SOA systems has unique challenges. This white paper details best practices for building large scale SOA applications.

Is .NET Ready to Challenge Java and J2EE? (PDF)

Learn more about how .NET's designers learned from the Java/J2EE world's struggle with the data access issue.

Checklist for Evaluators of Data Replication Solutions (PDF)

A guide intended for organizations who have committed to developing a distributed application environment and are evaluating various database synchronization solutions.

Analysis of Data Replication Collision Handling Strategies (PDF)

This paper evaluates collision handling strategies and compares their strengths and weaknesses.

Overview & Comparison of Data Replication Architectures (PDF)

This paper describes the major commercial replication designs and analyzes each one's advantages and difficulties.

Modeling/Mapping Flexibility in DataXtend CE (PDF)

Learn about the new and enhanced object modeling and mapping capabilities in DataXtend CE.

Comparing Replication Technologies

This paper describes the principal features of database replication tools that a database administrator (DBA) or application architect should be aware of when comparing replication offerings.

Server Commodity Rack Mounted Server Benchmark

This white paper explores the use of rack mounted servers in a load-sharing environment to support complete database applications.

Considerations and Metrics for Replication Technologies

This paper describes the key aspects of performance, from raw measures like transmission speed and CPU utilization, to sophisticated architectural considerations such as global propagation and local server loading.

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Application Integration
Using the SID

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Read the Pipeline book review >

This book provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS (New Generation Operations Systems and Software) frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability. Written by TM Forum's Sr. Technical Program Manager, John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software, this book is the third in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program.

Application Integration Using the SID is the first SID-oriented book to provide an introduction to application integration frameworks and describe how to use the SID within that context.

Topics covered include:

• Clear insight into the role of the SID in enabling data interoperability
• Actionable guidelines for SID-related project scoping
• Crisp requirements for data integration tool and platform evaluation
• Relevant case studies illustrating the above topics.

This book is a companion to the previously released Getting Started Using the SID: A SID Modeler's Guide.

Getting Started Using the SID

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To help you learn your way around the SID, this book, by John P. Reilly, a Sr. Technical Program Manager with the TeleManagement Forum, is the second in a series of books that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program.

Getting Started with the SID explains how to take all or part of the SID as-is and refine and extend it based on your organization's information requirements. It teaches you the importance of SID modeling patterns and how to apply them, and provides exemplary guidance on how to transform the SID information model into the SID data model. It explains:

• What the SID contains—its domains and coverage
• How to implement and extend the SID to meet real world challenges
• Why common data models like the SID are invaluable in integration
• What development tools support the SID

Each copy of the book comes with the DataXtend SID Model Browser, so when you want to explore, you don't need to page through printouts or trace relationships in UML, but instead can use the SID Model Browser's search tools to locate the relevant sections. You can improve your understanding of the SID by using the visualization tools, which illustrate class attributes, relationships and hierarchy for every element in the SID.

IBM Redbook

The 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.

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DataXtend SID Model Browser

Harness the True Power of the SID. DataXtend SI provides key support for building robust semantic integrations that gain the value of TM Forum's SID as a common data model to promote speed, agility, reuse, and data quality in data integration projects for operational and business support systems (OSS/BSS). Download the DataXtend SID Model Browser and harness the power.

Progress® DataXtend™ SI

DataXtend SI (Semantic Integrator) is a standards-based, model-driven visual design tool and distributed runtime application that operates within existing EAI frameworks to ensure the real-time scalability of SOA application integration. Semantic integration with DataXtend SI provides advantages for productivity, governance, and performance as corporations scale their SOA projects. Register to request an evaluation copy of DataXtend SI.

Progress® DataXtend™ CE

DataXtend CE consists of development tools and runtime libraries for creating the data access layer of custom applications with real-time requirements. DataXtend CE provides scalable performance and guaranteed integrity for enterprise applications that access relational databases. DataXtend for Java integrates with BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere application servers, and DataXtend for C# integrates with the .NET framework. Test drive DataXtend CE today.