From Data Management to Information Integration: A Natural Evolution The boundaries that have traditionally existed between DBMSs and other data sources are increasingly blurring, and there is a great need for an information integration solution that provides a unified view of all of these services. This article proposes a platform that extends a federated database architecture to support both relational and XML as first class data models, and tightly integrates content management services, workflow, messaging, analytics, and other enterprise application services. in Data Managementwith blurringboundariesdatadbmssexistedincreasinglysourcestraditionally