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Hewlett-Packard announced on May 21 that they will implement products to help businesses get started with service oriented architecture. Most of the software wilol come from the HP 2006 acquisition of Mercury Interactive. For governance HP wil use SOA Systinet 2.51. This is a management system that can be reused rather than re-created each time a new service is created.

cio.com entry 

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If you need a good resource on SOA vendors, this entry from service-architecture.blogspot.com is excellent. The assessments include summaries. The ratings and the categories are explained at the end of the entry.

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Business intelligence is about finding information from structured data. But what if you need to find information from unstructured data? Is there a business intelligence source that can find information from the company intranet? Or from internal blogs within the organization? Yes. The answer is Search.

There has been a wall put up between BI and Search. One reson is that the two have had trouble working together. Many want the two to work together for everyone who needs the information. Custom-designed portals or dashboards that combine the two are possible. The wide variety of desktop search tools like the free Google Desktop make it possible for detailed search queries across multiple data sources.

A change in infrastrucure will most likely be needed to enable a good integration of combined Search and BI tools. The possibility of traditional search results from the traditional sources and from structured data sources is worth a try.

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The use of web 2.0 technologies has more companies looking at it for efficient user participation in the workplace. BEA announced the emergence of three new products: AquaLogic Ensemble, AquaLogic Pages and AquaLogic Pathways. Ensemble is for enterprise mashup  creation and management.  Pages is for simple day-to-day  business solutions.  Pathways combines  social bookmarking and tagging  with search and activity analytics.

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Can return on investment (ROI) be calculated for SOA? Does ROI have to be calculated? First off, SOA is generally a long-term project with long-term results as a priority. SOA is all about solution building with many parts involved to build the finished product.

Joe McKendrick wrote about this and the very concept of SOA has many scratching their heads and wondering if an SOA venture is worth it. As Joe wrote, SOA is a strategic bet. SOA is about transforming business and is intangible. The best set of practices is used to drive business transformation.

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