By: David S. Linthicum, Author of "Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services"
As I’m exposed more to integration projects I’m seeing two patterns of failure, first the ability to recognize the problem itself and thus understand the solution, and selecting the improper enabling technology and products. In other words, people are leveraging services as a point of integration where information is the proper choice, or leveraging information exchange when services interfaces are indicated.
Understanding these concepts is becoming more important as we move into more service-oriented solutions, including SOAs.