Impact

Impact analysis.

Here’s a detailed account of the impact when the above explained architecture was implemented by some of the major companies.

• That the impact has been tremendous is quite evident.

• With remarkable improvements in data warehousing technologies catering to the huge requirements of  data.

• A streamlined approach in the web technologies solving this particular architecture .

• Markets opening up to embrace this concept.

• Subscriber base increasing into thousands for business software vendors in a very short time.

• A realignment of software produced in the past by many companies into this architecture. By reorganizing their code, removing repetitions and consolidation of code, as organized services means a great clarity in the projects.

• A certain importance to other fields of knowledge like mathematics and sciences other than computer science.

• A readjustment in the industry as a whole with major mergers and acquisitions focusing on this architecture.

• Some of the major changes this architecture has brought about in some important companies---

2005 - 2010

Fairisaac – Teradata : The first to understand and implement the same, Fairisaac fixed their rules engine Blaze Advisor to this architecture and added to its flexibility. With an alliance with Teradata the original intentions were put into practice by attempting to analyze large amounts of data in various ways and many dimensions to make decisions, and representing the results as graphical dashboards & Decision Services. The Services architecture, SOA, and SaaS, were first defined in the latest perspective using the latest technologies. Thus giving a new direction to Fairisaac’s EDM methodology. The first important step in the right direction, it could only have been possible at this place with the vast experience in Mathematics, Statistics and the latest technologies the people here had. (Google to: Fairisaac Teradata Alliance). Teradata separated from NCR with this pursuit, and a concrete purpose into the future.

IBM: Although very difficult people to take the first step and initiate the ideas. IBM defined each of the concepts, by breaking up each of the aspects to its fundamentals, and taking forward every part into Mega Structures and gained a lot by achieving 75% reuse of their software services. Also they bought over a range of companies and gave the architecture the robustness it deserves. Some of the many perspectives IBM provided are Service Component Architecture(SCA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere Workplace providing dashboards, A standard Services repository, Subscriber Based Model , and many more. Some major takeovers by IBM are Filenet (Services), Bowstreet(Dashboards), Cognos(Datawarehousing), Micromuse(Subscriber model) , ILog (Business Rules),SPSS(Statistical Software),Netezza(In Datawarehouse Analytics, ala Teradata) and many more. And now called  “ Information Management”.

SAP: A commendable job by SAP, they gave it a perfect business structure and shifted to the architecture and defined their method as Enterprise SOA. Also, SAP , which was a single block of software based on a client server model, could achieve the task since they had the services ready at hand which they ported to their Netweaver platform, with their latest offering based on Netweaver BI(Warehouse Analysis)-XI(Service Integration)-EP(Enterprise Dashboards). SAP also started giving importance to Business Analytics and bought over Business Objects. All the present day versions of SAP support this architecture and are built on it

Oracle-Weblogic: Oracle provided a new perspective to the Services model by providing Real Time Event driven model,where the Services react to the requirements instantly. With datawarehousing the need of the hour, Oracle diversified their products. Weblogic,  the very first to release their Aqualogic platform catering to the requirement of providing services  was promptly bought over by Oracle. And Oracle became a complete service provider with a product range for every aspect of SOA SOA now called the “Fusion Architecture”.

HP and Microsoft : That the two companies too have jumped into the band wagon is evident, with HP taking over EDS to provide services to their customers. And Microsoft releasing Microsoft Dynamics which can provide services to its subscribers by analyzing their business data , making decisions and displaying as dashboards, and naming it as the People Ready Business.

Sun Microsystems : Sun introduced the concept of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), by providing servers on Demand, to cater to the robust needs of various SOA service providers , reducing their total cost of ownership. Later to be expanded into Cloud Computing.

Unisys: Unisys, a very old company providing decision support and reporting services through its software called MAPPER(MAintain Prepare and Produce Executive Reports) since the 1970s,  running on some of the best known mainframes of yester-years, found a strategic importance in this architecture. The company, utilizing its existing software and hardware, introduced the Business Information Server(BIS) based on the above Services Architecture and ported the previously extensively used programs to the new concept called SOA  giving a new lease of life to the archaic software. In the process developing the OASIS(Open and Secure Integrated Solutions) architecture for migration and modernization.

Apache Hadoop : An extension of the Map-Reduce architecture developed by Google for search algorithms, is now known as Hadoop for Data Analytics, wherein the data can be analyzed at its place of residence and then combined/Mapped  with the analysis of other Reduced data in the internet domain. A very profitable tool for statistical analysis.

BI Tools:  The architecture originally built on the drawbacks of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, the only available standard tool for data management at the time, lead to the proliferation of a variety of tools based on the On-Demand  SaaS model. Ensuing in the availability of a range of open source tools for Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards and WebServices. Some of the tools being Eclipse Reporting tools, Pentaho, SpagoBI, JRubik, Mondrian , Compiere BI, Weka, Rex and many more.

2010 - 2015

Google: A tectonic shift in their approach, they have stopped building inconsequential products like Wave and Buzz. And re purposed their infrastructure into an onDemand model converting it into a data-based , HPC redefining - Google Cloud Platform. And all the others have followed suit.

And many more startups have sprung up in the past few years which cater to their clients using SOA, subscriber based model, and business data analysis. Some examples being  Mu-Sigma , Algorythm, etc.