SOA Resource Center
"Bringing SOA to the Desktop"
StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel connects the front office to the heterogeneous
back office—empowering business users by providing simple drag and drop data
service directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This offloads the high cost
and time associated with data integration efforts required by IT and instead
gives business users greater office productivity at their fingertips. Now anyone
can create engaging, interactive composite applications fed by real-time
data.
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The StrikeIron Web Services
Marketplace provides the world's largest variety of trusted and reliable commercial Web services. The Marketplace is built on the StrikeIron Commerce
Platform which allows developers, data providers and partners to meet the complex
challenge of managing an ecommerce ecosystem including authentication, billing
and accounting, usage tracking and reporting, security, and integrated tools and
services.
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The Analyzer executes the Web service dynamically and automatically parses
the WSDL to determine the data requirements and structure of the Web service.
Simply enter your inputs and immediately see the outputs in a familiar tabular
or tree format.
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What is SOA?
SOA is an acronym for Service-Oriented Architecture. It is defined by the strategy of building an information systems architecture across a network (including the Internet) where all data and business functions are available as independent services without regard to the underlying technology platform on which those services reside.
In general, the SOA consists of a catalog of services that are available across an enterprise for use by various consumers in different ways. These loosely-coupled stand-alone services tend to represent business processes or provide access to various data sources both internal and external to an organization. These granular services can then be utilized by multiple parties in combination with other services to fit specific business needs of different parts of an organization.
This approach to information architecture ideally encourages reusability, reduces complexity, and speeds development in cost-effective ways. Recent case studies have shown that an SOA can help reduce integration, project, and software maintenance costs substantially, and hence is an emerging and increasingly popular trend among IT departments around the world.
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