Multiple Content Repositories
November 24, 2004
My colleague Mark Walter has an excellent new case study over at the Gilbane Report web site. The case study is entitled, Wachovia’s CAS: Harnessing the Value of Multiple Content Repositories Across a Large Enterprise. The abstract:
Wachovia’s Content Access Services (CAS) infrastructure is a layer of middleware that provides a unified programming interface to a variety of content repositories spread across multiple business units of a large financial services company. Developed over a series of projects, CAS illustrates the speed to market that an effective enterprise content integration strategy can bring to organizations that grow through mergers and acquisitions. It also shows how content integration eases the transitions that organizations face as they retire aging systems and bring in new ones. Lastly, CAS demonstrates how content-integration services provide ongoing payback, cutting development costs by enabling new capabilities that leverage at a corporate level the investments that individual business units make in content management. Wachovia’s recipe for success includes a pay-as-you-go approach to developing the architecture, a noninvasive approach to deploying it, and a progressive approach to continually improving it.
Mark is always worth reading, and Wachovia is an interesting case study.
Posted by Bill Trippe at November 24, 2004 11:24 AM
