SOA from an Enterprise 2.0 perspective

Yesterday at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to share something I have been working on for the past 1.5 years, a communication model called SPOT. SPOT stands for single point of truth and refers to sharing all relevant information on products in the case of Philips.
The title of my presentation was ‘Freeing the flow of information!’, something we from content management have been trying to achieve ever since it was first formulated like this in Ann Rockley’s book ‘Managing Enterprise Content’. Anyhow, in my opinion this is what SOA is all about as well. The idea of enabling information to get to the place where it can be used.

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