Integration Issues within Information Technology
As the Zachman framework illustrates, the enterprise must determine how these assets are
going to be integrated at a logical, physical, and knowledge layer. Enterprise application
architectures and SOA are efforts to integrate the physical layer of the environment by exposing
data and services to the enterprise. Integration at this level is accomplished by using
operational data stores, or enterprise databases, which are the cornerstone of an enterprise
application architecture from the data perspective. SOA integrates the physical layer with
shared messaging infrastructures and common services. The gap in the design is the integration
of information within the environment. Systems communicate with services, access
common components, and read data stores which operate over an enterprise infrastructure.
This environment must be documented and integrated within the tool environment as well
as the knowledge management environment.
Structured vs. Unstructured Content
Within the computing environment, there exists a classification methodology based upon
the structure of the information. On one end of the spectrum is data that can be placed into
simple constructs of structure.
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