Best Practices for SOA: Building a Data Services Layer

(John Goodson and Jason Bloomberg) These days nearly every sizable organization has either implemented some form of SOA or has it on their roadmap. They quickly find that SOA efforts tend to expand like spider webs, eventually touching every corner of IT as well as the business itself. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, database architectures, information specialists, data integration experts, and anyone responsible for data persistence in an organization are increasingly being called on to contribute to their organizations SOA initiatives whether or not this was intended at the onset.