Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Where have all the agents gone? asks Seth Godin. He is talking about travel agents, stock brokers, real estate, and so on. "The proble...

A couple of good posts on disintermediation ... Prosciutto Business Models , by Martin Geddes (Telepocalypse) Are On-line Retailers an En...

In an SOA context, straight-through processing means passing some input services onto your customers, with zero intermediation. This only wo...