http://www.computer.org/portal/web/Enterprise-Thinking/content?g=6416743&type=blogpost&urlTitle=infor%E2%80%99s-challenges%3A-is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-
"Both are always harder than they seem to be. The trick for Infor is to
avoid the mistakes that Infor CEO Charles Phillips’ former company,
Oracle, made with its Application Integration Architecture
(AIA). Faced with a similar problem – the need to provide business
process and technology innovation spanning multiple product lines –
Oracle came up with an extremely top-heavy, master-data centric
approach that required customers to build and maintain a canonical data
model, inside AIA, that would make AIA the hub of process and
application integration. "