Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a form of software design and software architecture design that is based on separate pieces of software and provides application functionality as services to other applications. This is known as service-orientation. This specific software design differs from any other form of technology or product. A service is a self-contained unit of functionality, for example, retrieving online bank statements. Services can sometimes be combined by other software applications and will provide the complete functionality of larger software applications. SOA allows for computers that are connected over a network to easily cooperate with each other. Every computer is capable of running an arbitrary number of services, each service is built in a way that ensures that it can exchange information with any of the other services in the network without the need for human interaction as well as not needing to make changes to the underlying program itself. Introduction - Overview: My target for this project is to combine services an...
describe is the tools available to manager to support such decisions, the possible benefits and the limitations of BI. (Turban et al., 2011) Turban et al., (2011, p. 28) describes business intelligence (BI) as ‘an umbrella term that combines architectures, tools, databases, analytical tools, applications, and methodologies. It is a content-free expression, so it means different things to different people’. The key goal of BI is to allow for interactive access to data which can be in real-time,