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In any industry, in any region organizations are powered by information — to understand the business and make decisions, to serve customers, partners or employees, or to support business processes and applications. Data is at the core of all business activity. But, organizations across the globe are faced with the problem of accessing the data easily, consistently and securely. Data is everywhere — with an increasing growth rate, with diverse types of data sources, many often in proprietary formats, and with it being decentralized due to on-going mergers and acquisitions, technology limitations or organizational structures. Likewise, data management is difficult when there are numerous, different consumers of the data such as people processes and applications, coupled with demanding requirements such as real-time information that can be readily acted upon and is secure. So, how does an organization get live information they need? Delivering data as a service through Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a best path to getting there.
SOA brings a fundamental change to the need and value of data although it does not necessarily hide or resolve the data management issues. Instead, organizations need a better way to work with enterprise data regardless of where it resides and what type of data format it's in. The answer is data services and a data services layer. A data services layer provides data mediation or abstraction between the different consumers of the data and the diverse data sources. It not only insulates against impacts to underlying sources but also provides a common API for all application development and maintenance. Data services are virtual, aggregated views of the data, leveraged from sources across the enterprise — simplifying data access and updates and, once created, reusable again and again. As such, data services are an essential component to an SOA and service infrastructure.
AquaLogic Data Services Platform is the industry leading data services platform that delivers live, integrated and reusable information as a service, where you need it and regardless of where it resides. It offers a unique metadata-driven approach, called declarative programming. This approach helps eliminate the need for application developers to build workflows or code Java by hand, making it possible to automate data service creation and maintenance. It helps customers achieve faster time-to-value, reduced TCO and greater business agility. |
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