Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Entry Points tabs
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What is information as a service?
Information as a service is an entry point to service oriented architecture (SOA) that offers information access to complex, heterogeneous data sources within your company as reusable services. These services may be available both within the enterprise and across your value chain. By entering SOA from an information vantage, you may improve the availability and consistency of information, while simultaneously removing traditional barriers to information sharing. Drive innovation by better understanding your organization’s operational, transactional, analytical, and unstructured information and making it available in new ways through SOA.
The value of information as a service
Establish information as a service to ensure consistent definitions, packaging, and governance of key business data. Provide information services that can be easily reused across processes and independently maintained to enable more business flexibility and increase IT resource productivity. The IBM entry strategy to SOA through information can help:
- Collect, clean and make your data accessible:
- Develop a unified view of their business with inline access to analytical data for improved transparency and business insight.
- Generate and govern authoritative master data records with shared metadata and data quality services for master data management.
- Reduce cost and risk:
- Reduce costs associated with infrastructure rationalization and migration by decoupling information from siloed information sources.
- Reduce risk exposure through in line analytics and auditable data quality for risk and compliance initiatives.
- Increase your organizations agility:
- Increase the agility for business transformation by providing reusable information services, spanning structured and unstructured information that can be plugged into applications, business processes, and portals. At the same time lower development costs associated with accessing and transforming data.
Get started today
IBM can help you develop a strategy for SOA that focuses on information as a service. Through a lifecycle approach we can help your business capture, organize, integrate, transform, analyze, and use information to create insight within an SOA environment. Information as a service encompasses a range of software, services and solutions to address the appropriate starting point for your business:
- Information integration, enable real-time, integrated access to business information regardless of location or format by providing a broad set of information integration capabilities to semantically align information across disparate sources.
- Content management, access, protect and deliver information by building consistent and reusable services for integrated content.
- Business intelligence, IBM Data warehousing and analytics gives you the tools for powerful analysis from integrated data to derive insights that give you a competitive advantage.
- Master data management, establish consolidated "master" data for customer and product information, in both structured and unstructured formats, for a true 360% view across heterogeneous environments.
- Database services, manage, share and secure your XML or relational data using proven database management systems by embracing the emerging types of data that SOA relies on without sacrificing the reliability, performance and security of traditional formats.
- Services, leverage our experience, expertise and best practices with a full set of business consulting, architectural design and implementation services.
To get started today, talk to your IBM representative about your IT goals or contact IBM directly at soa@us.ibm.com.
