Information services are the foundation of the successful enterprise architecture. A mature architecture will manage an appropriate level of consistency and diversity of business information; it will be agile enough to evolve while maintaining high levels of data integrity.
This doesn't happen by accident. A reference architecture, policy and process framework is required together with appropriate tools and platforms that enable the essential automation and life cycle governance.
This report describes the CBDI-SAETM framework in the context of information services and describes how the best practices can be implemented in the Progress Semantic Integrator platform.