Leveraging Service Oriented Architecture for information integrity

Interest in service orientation is on the uptick with many enterprises building it into the foundations of their IT strategy. "I think there's definitely a strong movement towards [SOA] but I think it's going to be a gradual thing. SOA is just going to be the foundation piece in IT strategy.

Information technology powers business through transaction processing. As transaction volumes and complexity increase, exceeding benchmarks becomes critical. Businesses rely on application servers to build, run, integrate and manage hundreds or even thousands of software applications. This makes high performance and scalability of these application servers critical to the success of a company's SOA strategy, leveraging this with transaction process is really going to help the company in the long run.

The company should realise the value of SOA. It should try and have a systematic data management process, the approach should be positive while choosing a service oriented architecture.

What we have to understand is

• Why information integrity takes on such a critical role in a service oriented architecture.

• What aspects of our information infrastructure we should review as we examine our ability to deliver information integrity.

• The capabilities we need to deploy in order to ensure that there is no degradation or exposure to the overall process or transaction.

The soution lies in delivering information as a service. Organizations must make process integrity a priority.