The Case for Enterprise Data Services in SOA

Today, the data universe of Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing and Master Data Management (MDM) still lives largely outside the scope of SOA. But an enterprise view of Data Services may well bring these worlds together.

When properly architected and executed, Data Services can provide the link that unifies conventional data systems with the emerging SOA paradigm. By offering a decoupled data façade and an easily virtualized API, Data Services can give SOA the opportunity to establish system control. Jeff Pollock, Senior Director, Fusion Middleware, Oracle, goes on to explain the primacy of Data, role for SOA in Data-Centric Enterprise Architectures and what are SOA Data Services.

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