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AIA is an Oracle product Suite that is built on the Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite components. What is this and why should you care?

At the highest level AIA provides pre-built Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) components to help customers more quickly implement integration solutions between various applications.

Pre-Built reduces the amount of effort the IT staff has to do to get it working for the business.

Tying or integrating applications together is common problem in organizations that have several applications that need to share information. How do we get this legacy system to share information with this new Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) application we bought yesterday?

The traditional approach used some type of batch file transfer or Electronic Data Interchange or even re-entry of data. However these approaches weren’tt very useful for rapidly changing information within applications in your organization. An update of customer information in one system wasn’t very useful if the changes were only applied once a day or once a week.

Business users and customers wanted to see their information updated “everywhere” without long delays.

The typical solution in this case was to develop custom integrations that were written internally and required lots of programming.

With the advent of SOA, new options are available to consider when integrating different applications systems. SOA provides near-realtime update capability and reduces the amount of programming required. SOA relies more on configuration than programming and it is designed to use XML-based solutions to transfer messages between one or more systems.

So how did this happen? Check my next Post on this topic.

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