Chapter 5: The Data Integration Dialogues (Part 2) is Now Available

Chapter 5 of The Semantic Dialogues, The Data Integration Dialogues (Part II), is available now. Here's an excerpt: "Sanjiev, Patrice and Jerry are reaching consensus on the best approach to their data integration problem. And Cliff is showing some enthusiasm about using the data subdivisions of the SID as a guideline for internal projects. But it will be in vain if the team can’t find a way to put their theories into practice. Will their agreement last long enough to find a technical solution? "

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The Semantic Dialogues tells the story of how National Networks, a fictional telecommunications service provider, pursued and achieved data interoperability within their SOA infrastructure. The story begins with an urgent request from Operations for a fix to a problem that's keeping them from billing for new services. Assured that extensions can be made to the common data model (the SID) for the COTS billing system that's causing the headache, the problem is resolved in short order. The story then goes back a year to a time when the lack of a data interoperability layer made similar problems seem insurmountable and a tiger team is formed to put in place an OSS/BSS architecture that will change the way the CSP does business.