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Article: Bridging the gap between BI and SOA

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In "Bridging the gap between BI & SOA" we take a look at the challenges in building a decent BI solution within SOA constrains. In a nutshell the main problem is BI requires data. The traditional way to get that data is using ETL, which means getting to directly to the different data sources (databases etc.). This conflicts with SOA's view of the world which promoted decoupling and hiding internal data structures behind contracts.

The article suggests using that combining the the aggregated reporting pattern and fusing EDA with SOA can solve the BI and SOA mismatch. EDA helps bring the data out of the services by publishing. it in a structured and decoupled way and the aggregated reporting allows building the data store to load the data into data warehouses.

The article also suggest a way to deal with eventing using Request/Reply which is the prevalent message exchange pattern in SOAs.

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