Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just an enabler of business process and data integration. It allows your business intelligence engine to function as a single entity rather than multiple components.<\/p>\n
Historically, you\u2019ve always had a reporting\/query tool, an OLAP tool, and a dashboard\/scorecard tool. In some cases, each of these may have had multiple components themselves. Add the fact that you might have different products functioning in your operating units, and the number of BI vendors and tools increase.<\/p>\n
SOA really allows a single tool to drill down to the multiple data layers through the SOA middleware which acts as an integration point. From the UI level (assuming you have a single portal) the integration and interaction is seamless. Driving through the middleware where the directory access, security, data permissions, etc are controlled, a user with access to reporting may have started off at the same portlet as a user accessing data cubes, but they wind up vastly different tools with vastly different presentations returned to them.<\/p>\n
The value of scorecards and dashboards is that they should be presented at the user level with an enterprise wide comparator in mind. Your beautiful scorecards are meaningless if the baseline for measurement to strategy changes based on the business unit. Sure, some scorecards are meaningful at a business unit or cost center level only, but if you are unable to get to enterprise wide comparators because of a lack of integration, you\u2019re in trouble. SOA solves this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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