Needless to say, this isn't how companies do business -- there's always a human element to establishing a relationship. As a result, the UBR served as little more than an interoperability reference implementation. Now that UDDI has become more of a metadata management standard for SOA, there's little need for the UBR anymore.
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We are looking to fill out our portfolio with technologies that help you do other things with information, such as protect, secure, move and archive it, and to create policies and metadata so you can take these actions and automate them, and that you have the ability to centrally manage it.
SAS' metadata management gives us a lot of control and security over our clients' data. We have employees distributed all over the country. With SAS, we can access data on multiple databases and platforms and we work directly off the server, so we are all using a single, consistent view of the information.
It means using the camera phone not as a picture-taker, but as a scanner capturing metadata about products or services related to objects around us. I think we'll see more of this in coming years.
There should be a plan and policy in place to address metadata management before you deploy Windows Vista.
The issue isn't the existence of metadata. The issue is the inadvertent disclosure of metadata as data files leave the user's machine. PC users typically don't understand that the metadata is part of the content of the document.
We've worked really hard to find a middle ground. We feel like we've got a good kind of solution that gives customers the benefit of metadata without exposing them to too much risk.
With Microsoft's increased emphasis on security and privacy, the issues in Windows Vista should have been addressed deep within the OS during development, not with a tool that requires users to remember to remove or not remove metadata as appropriate.
The metadata problem is going to get worse with Windows Vista. Firms need some way of ensuring that they do not suffer embarrassment.
SOA is maturing. If you wanted to do SOA four years ago you were pretty much on your own. You had a couple of products that would let you do some Web services, but now SOA is a lot more than Web services. It's governance and security and metadata and much more.