A Model for Information Integration Using Service Oriented Architecture

• Published in: International journal of information engineering and electronic business 2014-06, Vol.6 (3), p.34-43
• Main Authors: Devi, C. Punitha, Venkatesan, V. Prasanna, Diwahar, S., Shanmugasundaram, G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2074-9023; 2074-9031
• DOI: 10.5815/ijieeb.2014.03.06

Business agility remains to be the keyword that drives the business into different directions and enabling a 360 degree shift in the business process. To achieve agility the organization should work on real time information and data. The need to have instant access to information appears to be ever shine requirement of all organizations or enterprise. Access to information does not come directly with a single query but a complex process termed Information integration. Information integration has been in existence for the past two decades and has been progressive up to now. The challenges and issues keep on persisting as information integration problem evolves by itself. This paper addresses the issues in the approaches, techniques and models pertaining to information integration and identifies the problem for a need for a complete model. As SOA is the architectural style that is changing the business patterns today, this paper proposes a service oriented model for information integration. The model mainly focuses on giving a complete structure for information integration that is adaptable to any environment and open in nature. Here information is converted into service and then the information services are integrated through service oriented integration to provide the integrated information also as service.