Defining, designing, and implementing SOA-based data services

Overview

Data services are a combination of application behavior and information, which are the core building blocks of IT architecture. Data services deliver data as a standards-based service and provide controlled and governed access to back-end systems and data.

The use of data services is critical to the success of an SOA, as well as critical to the success of IT in general. The ability to access complex data models using mechanisms that allow you to represent the data in a more logical business context, along with business rules and behavior, provides a huge strategic advantage.

This paper provides the basics around the concept of data services, with the call to action being your IT organization actively looking at data services, the process of building data services, and the value they can bring to your existing IT infrastructure.