Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology

In this groundbreaking book, Lyle and Schmidt highlight the significant benefits IT organizations can realize by adopting a more centralized integration approach, gaining efficiencies and cost savings that ultimately can translate into a corporate competitive differentiator. Describing the various "flavors" of an ICC that can be adopted by companies depending on their needs, Lyle and Schmidt then lay out a best-practices approach to implementing a centralized integration model—from assigning the right people, to determining processes and selecting the best technology.

This is a must-read book for any IT organization seeking to maximize their IT investments for business advantage.

John Schmidt is President of the Integration Consortium, a nonprofit organization promoting integration best practices. Mr. Schmidt has practiced as an information systems professional for 28 years and has experience in a wide range of industries, including retail, communications, and banking, as well as education and government. He has a record of consistent leadership in breaking new ground and driving business results. Mr. Schmidt is a frequent speaker on the topic of integration and has written a number of articles on the subject.

David Lyle is the vice president of product strategy at Informatica, where he leads Informatica’s research on model-driven architecture as it extends to integration automation. During the early to mid-’90s, Mr. Lyle worked as a data warehousing consultant on several large-scale, massively parallel warehouse projects. From this experience, Mr. Lyle helped found and grow Influence Software from 1996 to 1999 as a pioneering company in! the development of analytic applications. Informatica bought Influence in 1999 and since then, Mr. Lyle has helped expand Informatica’s data integration platform and metadata technologies, creating several patent-pending technologies for the company.