Re: It’s JADR (Just Another Damm Registry)

Re: It’s JADR (Just Another Damm Registry)

In a best of breed world, Registry/Repository vendors will always try to differentiate their solution and provide extra "proprietary" capabilities. The Registry/Repository market is being commoditized as we speak. Every major platform vendor as well as some small vendors provides their own flavor of a solution. Expecting a standard to bridge the gap among the different Registry/Repository solutions is doomed to failure. Registry/Repository solutions should be chosen based on their fit to the specific environment and use case.

Bridging the gap today rather than hoping and praying for a standard in the future will leave you with no real solution.

"So, what can be done?"

One of the solutions that are available right now is vendor agnostic Policy Governance solution. This way you can benefit from the best of breed Registry/Repository while making sure it ensures consistent content across the different solutions you have or may have in the future. Just be careful not to fall into the "bundled"policy management solution pitfall, make sure they can run with other platforms you may have.

As explained in a recent Burton Group paper: "A pure-play policy management solution, such as WebLayers Center, offers the most comprehensive and flexible policy management capabilities of all policy management options."

Bottom line, for most enterprises, waiting is not an option.