Service oriented Business Intelligence.
For quite some time now, a small group of undesirables have been studiously working away of some cool thinking and approaches to a common architectural challenge; “How do the world of Service Orientation and Business Intelligence (including ETL, Data warehousing and reporting for our purposes) sit together and can we learn from each other?
Sean Gordon (Microsoft), Michael Horne (Conchango), Simon Thurman (Microsoft) and I were lucky enough to come across a real life problem which needed solving and if you are so disposed you can read about it in the current version of the Microsoft Architect Journal (http://www.architecturejournal.net/2006/issue6/).
Sean and I are also presenting about this at the forthcoming UK Architects Insight Conference (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=260640&SiteID=1)
Thanks go out to Mick, Sean and Simon.