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16.6 What Does the Future Hold?
16.6.1 Metadata Delivery
As we saw in Chapter 8, new products that allow businesspeople to create their
own portal applications can facilitate the sharing of business metadata. This
very exciting trend should be expected to continue, with more powerful tools
for businesspeople to build their own mini-applications and do so faster, better,
and cheaper than in the past.
16.6.2 Semantic Integration and Discovery
Integration and sorting out the semantics between two or more systems is not
as easily accomplished, but even in this complex area, new tools are on the
horizon that will help discov ...