Logical Data Models used for SOA Information Exchange Logical Data Modeling (LDM) is the well accepted practice of designing business data models that are independent of application and physical database implementations. LDMs are conceived by Data Architects, Business Analysts and end users who analyze business processes and information for the purpose of defining a harmonized (logical) data model that represents the business. Up until now, the next step in development of LDM would be to create a physical database design. But what if we want to persist the logical model onto a network instead of a database? Logical Data Models can be used to implement an independent data exchange SOA implementation. The LDM can serve as the data exchange contract that allows applications to share information. The LDM also defines the vocabulary for building new business processes which can be defined as services. Implementing your SOA exchange architecture with this method allows it to be totally defined from the business, top down, and the business controls the changes to the implementation. If you think this makes sense! You're right! Replay the following webinar for the full presentation.   Logical Data Models used for SOA Exchange Webinar Replay

ObjectRiver SOA Release 1.0 Announced! ObjectRiver is leveraging its expertise in database metadata, by creating a new product that operates on SOA metadata. ObjectRiver SOA 1.0 is a new standalone product for SOA development. The ObjectRiver SOA solution allows creation of web services in minutes from interface descriptions. Version 1.0 generates Java based Axis2/STaX compliant services that may be integrated into any application server. ObjectRiver SOA Webinar Replay

ObjectRiver MDM Release 4.0 with XPath Version 4 MDM solution represent JDO business objects as XML DOM's (Document Object Model). ObjectRiver has implemented a Jaxen XPath complient solution for quering these objects with XPath language. Now application programmers can write URL like XPath queries to extract or calculate infomation contained in the JDO business objects, without the overhead of parsing XML. ObjectRiver MDM Webinar Replay

DMReview publishes our whitepaper! DMReview agrees, your data model contains more information than you may think. Check it out, it's part of our secret sauce! "Leveraging Data Models to create a Unified Business Vocabulary for Service Oriented Architecture "

4 Day Proof Of Concept Pilot ObjectRiver has a repeatable practice to implement a POC from an ERwin data model in 2-3 man days. This is more then a POC, because the delivered infrastructure is completely ready for creating production Web/SOA applications against your ODS. The POC identifies your business objects, domains, and codes tables from your data model, and generates a data dictionary that corresponds to your business vocabulary. It also generates a complete JDO CRUD, and data services layer. We have completed over 40 of these POC's and are actively working with integrators which are creating repeatable MDM/SOA practices to leverage our process. This POC process will accelerate your web portal or SOA development project by at least 10 months. We offer a 4 day pilot, where the POC is brought in-house, with two of our architects, to integrate the POC into your development environment. Your data architects as well as your Java architects will learn to use the ObjectRiver MDM/SOA solution to rapidly build the data access infrastructure for creating Web and event-driven applications. It also trains the developers on the process for implementing future changes or implementing the ObjectRiver MDM/SOA solution with new data models.

CA certifies ObjectRiver as Smart Partner for its ERwin integration

CA's ERwin data modeler is ubiquitous, and that is why we created a tight integration with this product. We have a best practice of describing an object model design within your ERwin data model. This is very much like UML except for we are unifying the object model into the data model instead of vice versa. 

We believe the data model is the best source of metadata for building the next generation of Web/SOA applications and we are willing to prove it.

CA has recognized that ObjectRiver is an innovator in the MDM market, and ERwin can be the front-end data modeler for designing web accessible information hubs. 

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