I thought I would share a recent question that was raised on LinkedIn, which asked:

Starting the Holy Wars on ESB? Who brings the best package deal to the table i.e IBM, MSFT...... Look at this way " A mid sized cash crunched has to implement ESB what are the options it has" or rather who should it be married to. Any thoughts

Tons of ESB from various players are in the market IBM, MSFT, Oracle , SAP but remember its a cash crunched company which requires the ESB. I can provide more details on the technical side. The idea is to throw ope...

So what is a CDM ?…

A Canonical Data Model is most simply explained as a standardised way of representing data that generically applies to multiple systems and data models - kind of like the master data model, but for semantics aswell as content. It can be used as a data model standard template for new systems development, or as an intermediary serialised data format - which is the aspect I’ll focus on mostly here.

Here’s an Example of using the CDM as an intermediary data format to integrate six systems with different data format requirements: Canonica...