Nitin Mangtani

Providing a first-class online user experience can require access to multiple sources of data. The required data often resides in multiple databases, packaged applications, and other information silos. Accessing and relating such data is a key challenge facing modern enterprises. The IT world knows this problem as the enterprise information integration (EII) problem: enterprise applications need to be able to easily access and combine information about a given business entity from a distributed and highly varied collection of information sources. To meet this need, BEA offers Liquid Data for WebLogic. Liquid Data provides unified access to data in relational databases, Web services, packaged applications (through J2EE CA adapters and application views), XML files, XML messages, and, through a custom function mechanism, most any other data source as well. It provides... (more)

Liquid Data: XQuery-Based Enterprise Information Integration

Modern enterprises are drowning in a sea of information. Despite owning an ever-increasing volume of information, most enterprises cannot exploit it to even a fraction of its full potential. This is because the information is strewn across many systems with diverse data formats and interfaces - systems that are largely unaware of one another and of the relationships their content has with information contained elsewhere. Therein lies the Enterprise Information Integration (EII) problem: enterprises need the ability to easily access information about a given business entity, such... (more)