Here to hear Alexandra talk about a real-world case with SOA and Documentum.  SOA has a lot of traction in the military as their dispersed,rapid-response nature really calls for SOA.

• The environment needs to be very flexible and support a wide variety of users and scenarios.
• The Swedish military works tightly with US and NATO forces, so this stuff applies across the world.
• Need to use newer and cutting-edge products in order to gain the agility needed in today’s environment.
• The office is not an “office”, but can be tents, cargo containers…
• Basic perspectives on information
  • Theme,Temporal (includes time span),Spatial (3d), Relationships, User interaction tracking > Components of visualization based upon filters.
  • Many systems cannot store all of this
• Integration Approach
  • SOA with ESB (point-to-point did not work)
  • Message hub using XML (uses Oracle Fusion Middleware suite)
  • Expose out-of-the-box services on the ESB (DFS)
  • Customizations developed as services and expose on the ESB
  • No stove-pipe, same object in all systems (Access things where you need it access it from)
• Logical Data Model and Services
  • Readable and provides a business-level model
  • Transforms to/from legacy systems
  • Lots of interoperability work that was enabled
  • Documentum manages the Relationships
• Use Master Data Management, of which Documentum is one of the systems managing data
• Use Solr for Enterprise Search, InfoGlue portal, IBM SameTime, TIBCO Spotfire
• Using Kerberos SSO for dealing with their authentication across the systems.
• If people forget passwords, they don’t use the system, Smartcards solve that problem (Very nice way to put it!)
• Seeing some cool tools integrated with Documentum using SOA.
• Solr is providing content analytics, creating word clouds and lots of other cool analysis.
• Use Service-side version of xDoc to create DITA-renditions of Word-files
• Customizations of DAM
  • Copy DITA references to Documents and Images
  • Create service requests
  • Still exploring XML capabilities (XDB I think she referred to as exploring)
• More examples using lots of GIS to display information
• Uses XMetaL/Documentum and the legacy XML documents, not using XDB at this time
• Legacy content needs proper attention to be converted to reusable pieces

This has been a very cool presentation and system.  Lots of visualizations and how Documentum can work as part of a larger solution.  I’d tell you where I was going next, but last time I did that, I was wrong.  It will involve coffee and may involve lunch.  Will be at the ECN area in the Expo at 1pm for the meet the Community Experts gathering.  I do need to find people that don’t enjoy pushing my buttons quite so much though.  🙂

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