Data Warehouses

Data warehouses need to be easily accessible and logical to use if they are to make information access in your business as efficient and useful as possible. Data warehouse software that is designed using traditional software development methods can make it difficult to change the functionality of your data warehouses to meet the needs of your employees and clients. Creating business and customer versions of the same data warehouse software and data warehouse architecture can also be costly using traditional software design. Using service oriented architecture (SOA) to create excellent data warehouses and applications can make your enterprise data warehouse much more adaptable. This can mean that you may create applications for managing data warehouses, managing access to data warehouses, and even creating scaled-down versions of your data warehouse software in a very small timeframe. To learn more about service oriented architecture, please fill in our online registration form. By registering, you will be granted access to online guidebooks that will tell you more about how SOA can help your business. An Oracle representative will also contact you in regards to opportunities for your organisation to create better data warehouses by utilising the principles of service oriented architecture.

How does service oriented architecture work?

Service oriented architecture works on a principle of creating new applications with existing resources where possible rather than the philosophy of traditional software development that creates software for use in a single application. Essentially, service oriented architecture uses modules of functionality called services that interoperate in order to create the same effects as an application designed from scratch would. These services each provide a business process to the application, with relationships to the other services defined with middleware. This allows for business applications like data warehouses to potentially be made very quickly in comparison to traditional software development and design.

How does service oriented architecture allow for greater flexibility in data warehouses?

Many businesses find that the needs they have of their data warehouses will change over time. If the data warehouses have been developed using traditional software design methods, this can require a overhaul of the entire system more often than is economical. Using service oriented architecture, however, new functionality may potentially be added merely through the addition of appropriate services and the rewriting of middleware to include new definitions of relationships with the incoming services. This addition of functionality to data warehouses and data warehouse systems rather than complete revision of data warehouses means lower costs in keeping systems up to date and lower costs in the training of employees in new systems.

Please remember to register with our online form if you would like to learn more about service oriented architecture. Registration will provide you with access to online guidebooks on the basics of service oriented architecture, provided by Oracle, leaders in service oriented architecture. You will also be contacted by a representative of Oracle to discuss opportunities for your business to use service oriented architecture to create more efficient and manageable data warehouses.