The transformation is determined by the business needs, and the business needs vary wherever you are. Your industry determines the kind of data you deal with, and how it will need to be used. A medical database will need to find details of a patient’s medical records. A retailer may need to track all individual POS sales, both to watch the financial side, and to observe the impact on inventory. A voter registration database may need to give reports of people using various filters for marketing or polling. And each of these systems has different details of what kinds of source data it needs as input and how the output data needs to be queried, all of which need to be checked for data
Some enterprise architects believe that SOA can help businesses respond more quickly and cost-effectively to changing market-conditions. This style of architecture promotes reuse at the macro (service) level rather than micro (classes) level. It can also simplify interconnection to – and usage of – existing IT (legacy) assets.
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