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Home > Solutions Overview > Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Organizations are implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to allow their applications to interact with one another in a loosely coupled manner. While this allows applications to connect to each other using a Web Services interface, applications typically still connect to data using standard interfaces like ODBC/JDBC or data source specific interfaces such as those provided by SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, etc. These hard-coded connections prevent the realization of the SOA vision of true loose coupling between enterprise application components.
Ipedo XIP achieves this goal by creating a data services layer that integrates data from multiple, disparate sources. Data can originate in relational databases, content repositories, file systems, or other Web Services. The Ipedo server combines the information and allows it to be published as a new Web Service that can be used by any application.
Ipedo leverages open industry standards to assure interoperability in an SOA. The Ipedo XIP server represents the integrated data as a standard XML schema exposed using standard WSDL. Applications can use a single connection to Ipedo, which maintains mappings to all the back-end data sources. If a data source changes, a single modification within Ipedo allows all the application connections to remain intact. Equally important, Ipedo manages the performance and security of the back end data sources, so moving to an SOA does not disrupt the existing infrastructure.
Ipedo Benefits
- Makes information available from disparate data sources available to Web Services
- Creates a data services layer that simplifies SOA access while maintaining performance and security
- Presents both relational and unstructured information as XML, allowing universal information exchange through Web Services
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