Enterprise Information Integration (EII) is proving to be an amazingly effective vehicle for traveling to the new space known as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

As modern-day technology navigators, SOA architects are finding that EII or data federation provides an excellent charter for their voyage from planning and design to implementation. Part of this charter is asking and answering the following questions:

• Where does Data Federation/EII fit in the world of SOA?
• How are EII-based data services overcoming the biggest hurdle in new SOA deployments?
• Why are data virtualization, data abstraction and on-demand data integration services now critical capabilities required in every SOA?
• Who is gaining value from these new capabilities today?
• How does one get started on a similar journey?