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Enterprise Information Integration - XML to the Rescue!
Michael Carey
Friday, December 5, 2003, 4:00
PM
Volen 101, Brandeis
University
(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm)
Abstract:
The database field has been struggling with the data integration problem since the early 1980's. We've named and renamed the problem - heterogeneous distributed databases, multi-databases, federated databases, mediator systems, and now enterprise information integration systems - but we haven't solved the problem. Along the way, we've tried data model after data model - functional, relational, object-oriented, logical, semi-structured, you name it, we've tried it - and query language after query language to go with them - but we still haven't solved the problem. A number of startups have died trying, and no major software vendor has managed to hit a home run in this area. What's going on? Is the problem too hard? Should we just declare it impossible and give up?
In this talk, I'll explain why I believe now would be exactly the wrong time to give up. After a brief look at history, I'll make the case that we are finally on the verge of finding a real solution to this problem. I'll define the enterprise information integration problem as I see it and then explain how the XML and Web Services revolutions that are in progress - based on SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, XQuery, and so on - relate to the problem and its solution. I'll describe the path that we are on at BEA to deliver a solution, and finally I'll leave the audience with my thoughts on open problems where the database field, especially the "modeling crowd", can contribute.
Speaker Bio:
Michael Carey received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1983. From 1983-1995 he was on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he conducted research on a variety of database system architecture and performance issues. In 1995, Mike moved to IBM Research, where he worked on data integration, DB2 UDB, and XML query technologies. In 2001-2002, he led an e-commerce infrastructure team at Propel, a small internet startup. Mike joined BEA Systems in late 2001, and since then he has been working on the XML data handling and XQuery related aspects of BEA's WebLogic Integration 8.1 and Liquid Data for WebLogic products. He is a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Maintained by Dina Goldin dqg AT cse.uconn.edu
Last updated on
11/13/03