9 Data Sharing Interoperability Problems Scaffidi &al, Topes to Validate, Reformat Data Many kinds of data are carried in short strings with many formats: name, date, phone, address Applications assume different format, and checking is binary, no maybe or special cases Topes offer format conversion, validation in [0..1] Doerner, EU Development: SOA Challenges In SOA, problem for EU is gathering all the data for a decision from various sources, DBs EUs want to export to Excel, but SAP cant do this Also cant exchange data between applications Scaffidi Doerner
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