Business Semantics for effective Application Integration and SOA

Why adding semantics and business context to your integration architecture will reduce complexity, increase agility, and improve governance.

In today’s business ecosystems, information has become a competitive and strategic asset. Being able to exchange data and to interpret this data in the right context and within a reasonable time is a top priority for many organizations.

In this white paper, we zoom in on the challenges of adopting a shared or canonical data model for application integration. This integration model is considered a best-practice when integrating applications on an Enterprise Service Bus or in the context of an SOA environment. The challenges to implement this architecture successfully are threefold:

• lack of semantic alignment,
• lack of flexibility, and
• lack of governance.

This Collibra White paper discusses these challenges in detail, and provides answers on how to tackle these issues. By:

• adding business context to your disparate data sources and let it drive the integration process,
• involving technical and business stakeholders by de-coupling structure from meaning in terms of business vocabularies, facts and rules.
• leveraging these business semantics operationally by deploying them as data services on your Enterprise Service Bus.

Adding business context and semantics to your existing infrastructure in this manner will enable you to leverage your investments by increasing agility and governance and reducing complexity.