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John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software

What a difference a year can make. With the problems they faced at the beginning, it's hard to imagine how our heroes ended up at a pizza party. Having spent years in IT myself, I can relate to the situation in Chapter 1 - a data nightmare that feeds on itself and seems to block progress at every turn. Does it remind you of a project you worked on (or maybe your current one)? Was free pizza involved? Tell us what you think.

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The use of a common data model in SOA has been recommended in definitive posts - from the viewpoints of integration and of governance. The common model architecture facilitates integration by providing a common ground for data transformation, and supports governance by bridging the business and implementation views of enterprise information. A common model supports several quite different styles of integration. We could look at those integration styles as a kind of spectrum, with extremes at each end and a blend in between.

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