Jiri’s Notepad

Naomi Bloom on the importance of object and data models for SOA:

Even with the clean slate that Workday has, if they aren’t able to get their enterprise and, initially, human resource management (HRM) models right, it won’t matter that they may have great enabling technology. But getting those models right will not only require that the business analysts doing the modeling work have deep and repeated experience developing object models for the specific domains but also that the vendors are willing to create significant data and process discontinuities with their installed base and with conventional ways of thinking about these domains, discontinuities that the vendors are loath to discuss.