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SOA Fantasy or Reality: Is Data Integration a Missing Piece in Your SOA?

Before your organization reaps the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you'll need to establish a robust integrated data infrastructure. This is the conclusion of a recent InfoWorld Webcast, Data Integration: A Missing Piece for a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture.

"An SOA simply cannot be deployed on top of duplicate or inaccurate or unreconciled data strewn across the enterprise in various data stores," says InfoWorld Editor–in–Chief Eric Knorr.

"Before applications are built on top of an SOA, the hard work of rationalizing the data must be accomplished using the right tools to speed the process and avoid mistakes," Knorr says. "Without that first step in provisioning data as a service, the notion of using an SOA to align business needs with information technology is more fantasy that reality."

Oracle's Jeff Pollock, senior director of product management, agrees: "Integrated data provides a single source of truth, orchestrates data into a common integration framework, and creates a modular paradigm for the applications and systems that consume data from your SOA," he says. "And they reduce the risks for infrastructure–related projects by standardizing the role of data access and data manipulation through the SOA."

Oracle offers a full range of best–of–breed and unified Data Integration technologies that enable a comprehensive set of data management capabilities for building, deploying, and managing enterprise business data.

Learn more about the benefit of managing data services in your SOA with Pollock in conversation with Knorr and Himanshu Parikh, director of enterprise applications at Ross Stores.

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