BI for SOA (Business Intelligence for Service-Oriented Architectures)

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are critical to today’s organizations – enabling them to dramatically increase agility and efficiency by leveraging the numerous heterogeneous systems within their IT environment to create new and critical business applications. SOAs can significantly minimize technical complexity and accelerate development and deployment.

Information Builders understands that data access and report creation are required for more than just business intelligence applications – they are essential for virtually any business application. That’s why WebFOCUS is the first and only business intelligence solution on the market today that provides full SOA support through its ability to create, consume, and publish Web services. With WebFOCUS, companies can quickly and easily incorporate robust business intelligence functionality into any application on the front or back end. For example, business intelligence functionality can be dynamically embedded into operational processes to enable effective business-process management (BPM). Likewise, business intelligence features can be utilized to monitor and manage real-time events and business activities.

WebFOCUS can:

• Turn any self-created component into a Web service that can be easily embedded into any .Net, J2EE, or Web-based application during the development cycle
• Consume Web services as a data source by allowing any XML Web service inside or outside the enterprise to be treated as a relational database, and accessed for reporting and analysis purposes
• Leverage pre-existing Web services and metadata to accelerate the development and deployment of business intelligence applications

WebFOCUS' unmatched support for Web services and SOAs help make it the standard for operational business intelligence allowing powerful enterprise reporting and analysis capabilities to become an integral part of your most vital business operations.