On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Andrew S. Townley wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 19:07, Stefan Tilkov wrote:
>> For example, when a service needs to know something about a customer
>> and an account, it can
>>
>> (a) go to both CustomerManagement and AccountManagement and correlate
>> the data itself
>> (b) go to ODS and retrieve the aggregated information
>>
>> Approach (a) would support a strong concept of data ownership and
>> autonomy, which I like very much. Scenario (b), though, is very
>> attractive for many because it consolidates the data integration 
>> logic
>> in a single place. For this purpose, I'm not as much concerned with
>> how the data gets into the ODS (via data replication, Web service
>> calls or RSS/Atom feeds). I'm unsure whether putting a single
>> "know-all" entity in the center is such a good idea ...
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> One thing option (a) also supports pretty well (at least in Europe) is
> easier compliance with the Data Protection and Privacy laws because 
> you
> would have to (potentially at least) authenticate to each of those
> sources if you went looking for data, and then you could use policy
> decisions to determine if you belonged to part of the organization 
> that
> had been given access to this information by the customer.  Once you
> centralize the data, you may lose the context that would allow you to
> provide appropriate access controls.  Of course, it might be easier to
> respond to a data protection disclosure request, but I think the
> potential for abuse is a lot higher with option (b).
>

Excellent point! Obviously, that's another downside - having 
consolidated data easily accessible is both nice and risky.

> On one hand, this thread is somewhat relevant to some of the 
> Information
> Sharing challenges faced by the US Government.

(Almost) anything affecting the US is relevant for global players 
everywhere; for example, in nearly all of our existing engagements in 
Germany and Switzerland, SOX compliance is an issue.

> I think the core
> challenge is the same:  get the right data to the right people at the
> right time (provided they're entitled to see it), but instead of one
> ODS, there's loads of them.  Have been doing some thinking in this 
> area
> as well lately, so this thread is very timely input.  Thanks for
> bringing it up Stefan.

Thanks for all the great responses!

Best regards,
Stefan


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