Why Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?
Consider that computing revolutionized all information-centric businesses only in 1993 when simple, stable, and standadized responsibilities were given to "documents". Every human and program knew that a document could be told to Open, Edit, or Print.
It took about another seven years for the standads bodies to agree on delineation of responsibilities for common but complex cross-cutting functions that are needed in nearly "all" evolving-enterprise environments such as authentication, portal, context management, master identifier management, terminology management, extended-record access and others.
However ... even at this level of maturity, the deployment periodicity was not much less than the rate of arrival of new business partners. It needed to be an order of magnitude faster in order to stop the bleeding and breathe in new business.
It took yet ANOTHER seven years to standadize the precise operation sets, metadata practices, and argument encodings for services like these, and to mature the invocation and communiction protocols by which they can connect. Only now can they support rapid changes in connections so that the business as a whole can have an acceptable response time to its partners.
Since 1992, our customers used our tools to build six clinical data repositories with portals almost entirely by configuration without coding or scripting for interacing, identifier correlation, or for secure access. Each site was an improvement over the preceding because it factored out yet more complexity into a coherent and managable "service.", and we colabored with the standards bodies wherever applicable. The result today is that we have perhaps the Worlds best set of SOA components for the "Read-side" (not the data entry systems) of Agile business partnering.
Our
Healthcare customers include NIH, Mayo Clinic, University
of Michigan Hospitals, Catholic Healthcare West, and
WakeMed. Our healthcare portal customers take our
capabilities and responsiveness as the new gold-standard
by which their other vendors are measured.
Our Technology partners include Perot Systems. Carefx, IBM, and Motorola.
Jon Farmer
Principal,Care Data
"I worked with Jon and Care Data Systems to create a partnership between our companies. Care Data's Person Identification Service (PIDS) is a very advanced product out of a very small company. Its self-calibrating statistical matching capabilities enabled us to link vehicles and suspects without writing custom code. Its creator, Jon Farmer definitely knows his stuff in this space."
Dennis Aldridge
Technology Alliances at Motorola, Inc
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