IBM SOA - Information as a Service

What is information as a service?

Information as a service is an entry point to service oriented architecture (SOA) that offers information access to complex, heterogeneous data sources within your company as reusable services. These services may be available both within the enterprise and across your value chain. By entering SOA from an information vantage, you may improve the availability and consistency of information, while simultaneously removing traditional barriers to information sharing. Drive innovation by better understanding your organization’s operational, transactional, analytical, and unstructured information and making it available in new ways through SOA.

The value of information as a service

Establish information as a service to ensure consistent definitions, packaging, and governance of key business data. Provide information services that can be easily reused across processes and independently maintained to enable more business flexibility and increase IT resource productivity. The IBM entry strategy to SOA through information can help:

Collect, clean and make your data accessible:
Develop a unified view of their business with inline access to analytical data for improved transparency and business insight.Generate and govern authoritative master data records with shared metadata and data quality services for master data management.

Reduce cost and risk:
Reduce costs associated with infrastructure rationalization and migration by decoupling information from siloed information sources.Reduce risk exposure through in line analytics and auditable data quality for risk and compliance initiatives.Increase your organizations agility:

Increase the agility for business transformation by providing reusable information services, spanning structured and unstructured information that can be plugged into applications, business processes, and portals. At the same time lower development costs associated with accessing and transforming data.

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