Welcome to DataServices World at SOAWorld 2008!
A message from the chair, DataServices World at SOAWorld 2008, Ken North
DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing. Its focus is architectures and technologies for accessing data from heterogenous data sources and providing that data to consumers such as components, services and applications.
Distributed processing, high-speed networks, powerful servers, components and collaboration define the landscape of 21st century computing. For building new systems and exploiting legacy applications and data, developers are looking to collaborative applications assembled from distributed components. The emergence of XML and web services spurred an increase in services-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. SOA today can include web services, grid services, integration services, semantic web services, components and messaging systems.
Developers who've enjoyed success with component-based development are looking to new architectures with services as the new components. But even as the Service Component Architecture and other new technology gain tractions, some system characteristics remain consistent. Today's systems, like their predecessors, typically have a requirement for persistent information and databases.
Many organizations have a variety of persistent data stores, including SQL databases, geo-coded data files, spreadsheets, content management systems and XML. Services, applications, and mashups can consume and integrate data from disparate data sources. In an n-tier enterprise architecture and a service-oriented architecture, the logic for providing data from databases and other data sources resides in data access layers and data services layer.
Today's data services layers encapsulate logic for accessing data stores, typically using standards-based technology such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and Service Data Objects. These specifications define solutions for uniformly accessing and manipulating data from heterogeneous data sources.
At DataServices World, we'll uncover architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability. These solutions include robust, high-performance data access middleware, optimized databases, efficient protocol handling, tuned queries and state of the art data services. We'll be looking at technology of interest to CTOs, enterprise architects, system architects, information architects, developers, database gurus, consultants and analysts.
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If you read this column
and listen to my
podcasts, you know that I
call SOA what SOA is - an
architectural pattern. In
many instances, SOA is a
vital component of
healthy enterprise
architecture. Indeed,
I've provided some
keynote talks around this
very topic at about
half-a-dozen ente
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angel round, Desktone,
which was started in 2006
by Eric Pulier, who also
started SOA Software, US
Interactive and IVT,
picked up $17 million in
first-round funding about
a year ago from Highland
Capital Partners,
SoftBank Capital, Citrix
Systems and the
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URIs are the lingua
franca of the web. They
are in every web page and
every HTTP request. In a
practical sense, they
represent the realization
of the web. Without them,
the web would cease to
exist. The situation is
very different in the
world of the RDBMS. Here,
URIs are interlopers. 
A panel of experts and
executives from
organizations that are
leading providers and
consumers of technology
will discuss trends and
important technologies
for enterprise and
Internet computing. The
experts will discuss the
role of databases and
database technology
trends that enhance S
The new wave of Web
applications are built on
technologies such as AJAX
and Microsoft
Silverlight, which enable
developers to build
better, richer user
experiences. These
technologies bring a
shift in how applications
are organized, including
a stronger separation of
presentation from 
Open source has made
signficant inroads into
middleware deployments in
the enterprise. More and
more, open source is
being used to deliver the
benefits of SOA and open
source to the enterprise.
There are many custom
Enterprise Service Bus
deployments waiting to be
upgraded to a simple,
The ever-increasing
movement towards
implementing complex
SOA-based applications
has triggered a direct
attention of leading
industry researchers and
practitioners to the
subject of layering in
such applications, in
general, and the
relationship between the
fields of database
engineeri 
While SOA can deliver
dramatic cost reduction
of an organization's
business operations, it
is a complex,
multidisciplinary
undertaking, and
therefore introduces
significant risk. This
session presents a list
of the most important
risk factors and ways to
mitigate them BEFORE it
is too 
