SOA For Document Capture By Scott Blau, Datacap Inc.

You can't pick up a technology industry magazine (or read one online) without being assaulted by articles on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Hailed as the next big thing, how can SOA possibly live up to its promise? Like the blind men who each approach a different part of an elephant and pronounce very different assessments of what they have touched, SOA means different things to different people.

Actually, for ECM, SOA is the next big thing. This article concentrates on the important new role that SOA can play, specifically in document capture, and, by the way, I hope will provide some perspective on the entire SOA elephant!

Scott Blau is CEO of Datacap (www.datacap.com), a leading provider of advanced document capture and forms processing software solutions. Blau has provided expert guidance on data and document input & workflow to some of the world's most sophisticated organizations for almost two decades. Have a question about rules or capture in general? Contact him at sblau@datacap.com.