We are often asked if undertaking a data integration project makes sense for small and mid size companies. In particular, does it make sense to implement this using a Service Oriented Architecture?
The answer is that it makes as much sense for a small or medium sized company as it does for a large company. In fact it makes more sense in many ways as such companies can achieve this more easily as they are likely to have less data in different places. Just consider that large companies were once small or medium sized and ended up undertaking data integration projects due to the fact that they didn’t integrate their data sources when they were smaller.
This does not have to happen as part of a ‘big bang’ approach. A decision should be taken to do this and as these IT projects progress, use each project to implement SOA data services to represent the business objects that are needed. This will provide the following benefits:
- It can help to eliminate duplicate data in your organization. Duplication of data leads to large and expensive problems down the road as it gets out of date.
- It will help your organization’s IT systems to scale as your organization and its data grows.
- It will enable you to react more quickly to your business requirements as your data services can be immediately available to new systems.
So the time to start implementing data services in your organization is as soon as possible! The SOA Gateway can help any size organization to create data services for its data.
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