BI Tools

BI tools need to be able to meet all of the business intelligence needs of your organisation if your analytics are going to lead to effective decision making. BI tools, specifically business intelligence software, can be difficult to adapt to changing needs when using traditional methods of software and application design. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a different design philosophy based on taking existing resources and using them to meet your needs rather than creating entirely new programs. To learn more about SOA and how your BI tools can benefit from this design style, please register with our online form to receive access to online guidebooks provided by Oracle, leaders in service oriented architecture. You will also be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss how your BI tools could be developed in the future using service oriented architecture.

What is service oriented architecture?

Service oriented architecture is a design process that focuses on creating new applications rather than new software. By using a series of modules of functionality called services, as well as middleware to guide these services in how they communicate with one another, a new application can be created using mostly existing software.

How does service oriented architecture make BI tools more adaptable?

Your business intelligence needs and those of your BI tools can change as you gain more information, which is where service oriented architecture can be very helpful. Creating new applications or modifying the functionality of your existing SOA designed applications can be as simple as finding the right modules of functionality and then writing middleware to assign the relationship these new services have to other services. Designing new BI tools and redesigning old BI tools can therefore be accomplished very quickly. Rather than needing to design BI tools from the ground up, the right functionality can be found instead to meet the requirements of a new application.

How can service oriented architecture reduce the cost of developing BI tools?

Business intelligence tools and BI software can be very expensive to develop, and thus are often updated very irregularly. This is because specially designed applications usually cost a large amount of money in development. Many businesses share similar needs in the functionality of their BI tools, however, which is where service oriented architecture and companies that specialise in it come in. As the basic elements of functionality of BI tools are likely to be shared by many organisations, services can be developed by companies like Oracle in order to provide that functionality for many businesses and their BI tools. The costs of development for these services for BI tools can then be spread across many clients instead of requiring every organisation to take on the full development costs of all of their specialist BI tools and applications.

Please remember to register with our online form if you are interested in finding out more about service oriented architecture and how it can provide you with better BI tools. You will receive access to online guidebooks on registration and be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss opportunities for your company to use service oriented architecture to improve its IT assets and BI tools.