Analytics Reporting

Analytics reporting needs to be efficient and accurate if it is to be of use in making essential business decisions. Analytics reporting software thus needs to be flexible and adaptable to changing information needs, but traditional software design can make these changes slow and costly. Service oriented architecture can improve the flexibility of your analytics reporting software by allowing the fast development of a full analytics reporting suite using existing software services to create its functionality. To learn more about service oriented architecture (SOA), please fill in our online registration form. This will provide you with access to online guidebooks to teach you about the basics of service oriented architecture. You will also be contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss the possibility of using service oriented architecture to improve the analytics and reporting of your business through more adaptable analytics reporting software.

What is service oriented architecture?

Service oriented architecture is a design method for applications that focuses on outcomes rather than designing new software. By taking modules of functionality called services and organising relationships between them with middleware, service oriented architecture can provide new applications using reused software functionality. As the emphasis is on reuse of functionality where possible, new applications - such as analytics reporting software - can be created on a much briefer timescale than through the use of traditional software development methods to create a new application.

How can analytics reporting be made more flexible and adaptable using service oriented architecture for analytics reporting software design?

Analytics reporting can have changing needs as new data becomes available that expands the scope of your organisation's analytics reporting. Traditional software development is generally not very adaptable and can take a long time to incorporate new functionality. With service oriented architecture, your analytics reporting applications can take on new functionality by adding the appropriate services to an applications structure, and changing the middleware so that the old services know how to communicate with the new services. In other words, the new functionality is found in existing modules that can be added to a service oriented architecture structure, with new relationship definitions coded into the middleware.

How can service oriented architecture save on the costs of developing an analytics reporting suite of applications?

When your business designs its own IT assets from scratch for analytics reporting, all of the development costs are yours. However, many businesses share similar functionality needs for their analytics reporting software. With service oriented architecture, SOA based businesses like Oracle can develop services that will suit application needs for many different organisations. The cost of developing those modules of functionality can then be spread amongst multiple clients, so that everyone can benefit from reduce development costs of new analytics reporting applications.

Please remember to register using our online form if you would like to learn more about service oriented architecture and how it can potentially make more adaptable analytics reporting applications. You will receive access to online guidebooks for registering, as well as being contacted by an Oracle representative to discuss the specific opportunities for your company to use service oriented architecture to improve its analytics reporting.