What Do SOA and ESB Mean in Business Intelligence?

A key point to note is that an SOA can interconnect resources that operate at the user interaction, application and data levels of an IT system. In a data warehousing environment, for example, a data validation service could be defined as a service provider and called by data integration application. Other examples of services providers include user authentication, search, data transformation, BI analysis, data mining models, legacy applications and business transactions. To support an SOA environment, most business intelligence and data integration vendors are building service interfaces to their products.

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