This standard is partially responsible for your sanity.
Drive a car anywhere in the world, which side of the road, color of your headlights, traffic rules are all concerns, however one issue is not a concern: whether your car will be able to fill up at any petrol station in the world. That is the power of ISO 9159:1988…. catchy.
If that weren’t the case, you would select a petrol station based on what type of receptacle your car has and what type of nozzle they have, limiting choice and resource availability. To think like that is crazy. Today, you just pull into a gas station, fill up, and pay without a thought of the compatibility of the delivery system.
Equate this with the current state of customer digital vendor integration and boy is it a mess.
Incompatibility is the norm in the digital space, despite vendors providing the same services. This would be equivalent to only being able to fill up at an Exxon gas station and not be able to use Amoco, Chevron, Shell or any independent gas station because each has their own delivery standard, and they are incompatible with your car’s receptacle. Think of the economic impact that would have, the restrictions to travel and the complexity. Even your choice of vehicle would be governed by what gas delivery standard it supported. That is the state of the world in digital integration. Insanity!
Fortunately, ATERYX is here to remove the crazy and restore peace of mind to digital integrators and unparalleled flexibility to solution architects.
Instead of integrating to a single vendor, integrate to the vendor-neutral ATERYX Service Model. Now you can fill up at any digital gas station, removing per-vendor integration headaches and improving the lives of solution architects everywhere, behold the power of the Vendor Neutral Language. Sanity restored.
Obviously “ATERYX Service Model” isn’t as catchy of “ISO 9159:1988”, so we have some work to do in the marketing realm, but the ease and flexibility of service consumption is the same.
So next time you fill up, take a look at the gas nozzle and remember that ISO 9159:1988 was responsible for that.
Now, if we could just get the world to move over to BS 1363 that would be very welcome indeed.
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