After a brief hiatus, I am writing this article on Orchestra networks' EBX.Platform - an XML based approach to Master Data Management. The EBX.Platform is based on J2EE and XML. The whole architecture is based on 3 items - Models, Services and Modules (Models + Services).
So how are they able to achieve their MDM framework?
The Data Model is developed based on a simple XML schema standard and this is termed as an Adaptation Model. Services such as import/export can be added on top of the adaptation models. It can also be maintenance features provided by the UI. And finally Modules, nothing but Models and Services are deployed as Web applications.
They also support quite a unique feature - Branches & versions of Master Data. This helps a company to maintain its current version of master data, when it is working on a futuristic model.
I would like to monitor the progress of this interesting tool, given that it is being used in some big companies.
