Chapter 15. The Impact of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) on Business Intelligence Solutions

Wikipedia defines SOA as follows:

There are several different definitions of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Generally speaking, SOA is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration. Upon deployment, an SOA-based architecture will provide a loosely-integrated suite of services that can be used within multiple business domains. SOA also generally provides a way for consumers of services, such as web-based applications, to be aware of available SOA-based services. For example, several disparate departments within a company may develop and deploy SOA services in different implementation languages, ...

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