Business Analytics

Business analytics need to be accurate to be of use. Business analytics software that does not provide the right functionality and that cannot adapt to the changing needs of advanced business analytics within your organisation will lead to business intelligence analytics that misinform major decisions. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a form of software design that allows for adaptable and customisable business analytics applications to be created from already existing functionality. If you are interested in learning more about service oriented architecture and how it can be used to create excellent business analytics software more quickly, please fill in our online registration form. Registration will give you access to online guidebooks on SOA provided by Oracle, one of the leaders in service oriented architecture. You will also be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss the possibility of using service oriented architecture to revolutionise your business analytics software and applications.

How does service oriented architecture work differently to traditional software design?

Rather than requiring a focus on making the right software to produce the right final outcome, service oriented architecture instead focuses on the functionalities necessary to providing a suitable end result. By using interoperating modules or functionality called services, service oriented architecture allows new applications to be made using middleware to define the relationships between the business processes that each service provides. SOA uses modules of functionality designed to interoperate in a specific way in order to allow new applications to be made from largely existing software.

How can service oriented architecture save money on designing business analytics software?

One of the unfortunate elements of traditional business analytics software development is that much of the basic functionality that each business requires will be similar. This is unfortunate because each business will be designing what is effectively the same software functionality component, taking on all of the development costs individually. Service oriented architecture can allow the costs of developing similar functionalities to be spread across many businesses, however.

SOA development companies, such as Oracle, can develop services that will suit the business analytics applications of many organisations. The costs that each business must cover to purchase the services they need to create new applications is then potentially much less than the cost of developing that functionality in-house with traditional software design methods.

How does service oriented architecture allow for more adaptable business analytics software?

As the advanced business analytics needs of your business are likely to change over time, traditional business analytics software can be too inflexible to meet requirements fast enough. Service oriented architecture allows new functionality to be added to applications by finding the right services to provide the new functionality and then defining relationships in the middleware. This means a much more flexible structure to allow business analytics software to adapt to emerging customer and employee needs.

Please remember to register using our online form if you are interested in learning more about service oriented architecture. You will receive access to online guidebooks and you will also be contacted by a representative of Oracle to discuss the opportunities your business has for using service oriented architecture to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its business analytics.