The next SOA Challenge - Managing Data Access in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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DataDirect are increasingly hearing from customers with active SOA projects that they are experiencing challenges accessing data from newly created services.

A coherent approach to data access can be overlooked until the number of services accessing data across the enterprise, using existing tools and API’s, creates new management challenges.
Typically, services are designed to be reused by other applications but data access is still hard-wired into the service—the same way it was done with monolithic applications. Accessing data directly inside each service results in over complicated deployment scenarios, reduces scalability and performance, and results in inflexible services.

If you don’t abstract the data access out into a data tier, every time the physical data source is altered, you have to update all the services that access that data versus managing the changes at the data tier. Without decoupling data access logic from business logic, the value you get from SOA—reuse and agility—quickly diminishes.

DataDirects SOA solutions will help you:

• easily aggregate a wide variety of heterogeneous data sources, including all major relational databases, XML documents, flat files and other legacy formats, including the mainframe, and integrate them into one result. The result can then be exposed as web services / SOAP messages and accessed from any Java or .NET application.
• access proprietary mainframe data and programs from distributed environments, providing both SQL and SOAP interfaces, all within a single integration platform.
• avoid performance, scalability and reliability issues for SOA by using the best-of-breed data access components as the foundation for your data tier. Our database drivers cater for ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and any proprietary data source.

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