by Dave McComb | Jan 21, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Matt Hannifin, who runs Science Toy Magic (at the bottom of the stairs in the entry to our office) reminded me of two things today: 1) The value of keeping good statistics — he keeps detailed records not only of all his sales but where his leads came from, etc....
by Dave McComb | Aug 25, 2010 | Data-Centric Architecture
We do enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures, and semantics. I suppose it was just a matter of time until we put them together. This essay is a first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like. What problem are we trying to...
by Dave McComb | Aug 11, 2010 | Development
When are Two Service Implementations Better than One? The Case for the Shared Service Lite One of the huge potential benefits of an SOA is the possibility of eliminating the need to re-implement large chunks of application functionality by using shared services. For...
by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies, White Papers
Most companies of any size have created an internal Tower of Babel that frustrates all attempts to integrate their disparate systems. Download the White-paper
by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies, White Papers
Getting the categories and classes distinction right is one of the key drivers of the cost of traditional systems. We’ve been working with two clients lately, both of whom are using an ontology as a basis for their SOA messages as well as the design of their future...