Data Processing

Data processing needs to be efficient and comprehensive if it is to provide useful business intelligence suggestions. If the data processing service or data processing system of your business has been designed using traditional software development, then changing the functionality of your automatic data processing or adding additional data processing systems is likely to be slow and costly. This is because traditional software development is not very flexible in terms of adding new business processes, but service oriented architecture offers an alternative. Service oriented architecture (SOA) uses modules of functionality that communicate with one another in order to create business and data processing applications with a minimal need for creating new software. If you would like to learn more about service oriented architecture, please fill in our online registration form. By filling in and submitting our registration form, you will gain access to online guidebooks that detail the basics of SOA. These guidebooks are supplied by Oracle, leaders in service oriented architecture, and you will be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss the potential your organisation has for improving its data collection system and IT assets using service oriented architecture.

How does service oriented architecture differ from traditional software development?

Service oriented architecture focuses on creating applications using existing assets if possible, rather than focusing on the creation of new software made specifically for a single application. Using modules of functionality called service, service oriented architecture links the business processes that each of these services provides in order to create a new application. Middleware is used to define the relationships between services and to make sure they interoperate effectively, but as long as the right services are available to provide the necessary functionality for a new application, middleware can potentially be all the new software that is required for designing an application using service oriented architecture.

How can service oriented architecture improve a data processing system?

A data processing system is likely to need to take on new sources of information at some point in time, or else a slightly different data processing system may be needed in addition to the original. Traditional software design could easily require you to have an entirely new system made in order to properly incorporate the new functionality. Service oriented architecture, on the other hand, is different. SOA allows an initial data processing system to be created and then modified through the addition of services. To add functionality to an old data processing system designed with SOA principles all that can be required is to find suitable services and then to write definitions in the middleware to define new relationships. Creating a new application with some similar functionality to an existing system can be very easy using system oriented architecture, as appropriate services can be reused.

Please remember to register using our online form if you would like to learn more about service oriented architecture and how it can potentially make your data processing more efficient and accurate. You will receive access to online guidebooks to teach you more about service oriented architecture and you will also be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss opportunities for your business to use service oriented architecture to create a better IT infrastructure for your data processing.