BI & SOA

Arnon Rotem-Gal-OzOfer Azoulay

Yoram Kahana

How can you get your BI needs in solutions based on SOA

The problem is real

SOA is about loosely coupledcoarse grained components

ServiceService

describesdescribes

End PointEnd Point ExposesExposes

MessagesMessages Sends/ReceivesSends/Receives

ContractsContracts

Binds toBinds to

Service Service ConsumerConsumer implementsimplements

PolicyPolicy governed bygoverned by

Sends/ReceivesSends/Receives

Adheres toAdheres to

UnderstandsUnderstands

ServesServes

Services are autonomous

Business Intelligence

www.flashmapsystems.com/imgrs/pdfs/bi.pdf

BI needs information while SOA promotes encapsulation

Option 1- The hack with SOA, we need that information

Option 2 – Get the services to collaborate

Nothing specific

Adding a specific BI contractETLConnection to DBFile BasedOn line

Department

Server

DB

Blogjects concept is about collaborating objects

Moving to Event Driven Architecture

Dashboard in an SOA

Mark Palmer “Turning Service-Oriented Events into Business Insight “ http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/250515.htm

We think Collaboration is better

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