The adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to further decouple monolithic applications by decomposing business functions and processes into discrete services. While this makes enterprise computing assets more accessible and reusable, SOA implementation patterns are primarily an iteration over previous application development models. Like most application development evolutions, SOA approaches inject more layers and flexibility into the application tier, but have often neglected the most fundamental building block of all applications: the underlying data.
Current Data Environment of Most IT Organizations
The condition of a typical organization's data environment is usually not where it needs to be before the organization can begin a SOA transformation - from an enterprise perspective, there's often a lack of authoritative sources and a wide array of technologies used for storing and processing data.
