June 13, 2012
Deploying Web Services within PeopleSoft as Easy as 1,2,3.
About the company and services
Momentum Solutionz is one of the leading service providers that deliver high end, accurate, and result driven solutions in effectively optimizing PeopleSoft and Oracle based software systems. With most businesses enterprises relying on software automation solutions, Momentum Solutionz continues to revolutionize business operations through its wide array of offered services such as the following:
- System Assessment
- System Architecture
- Remote Support Services
- Implementation, Upgrade, and Development Services
- Functional Fit / Gap
- Technology and Integration Services
- Enterprise Security
- System Architecture and Performance Tuning
- Application DBA Services
To Deploy or Not to Deploy
Technology deployment is considered as a crucial step from which certain questions must be considered in order to come up with a carefully thought of decision and secure the best results possible.
- a) Can technology deployment be strategic? This certain question raises the awareness of the involved party with regards to the significant role and purpose of a particular technology towards business development. Deployment of technology can be considered as strategic if the following circumstances are observed:
- Utilization of technology as a major and effective medium in securing value to all products and services delivered to clients and customers.
- Visible and significant business development based on ROI
- Deployment of needed technology against present and existing ones
- b) What technologies should be considered? Momentum Solutionz looks at utilizing two forms or types of technology for PeopleSoft applications. These are:
- Service – Oriented Architecture (SOA) – a group of different forms of services that establish a standard protocol based communication with each other.
- Web Services – integration of web based applications by way of standard protocols such as SOAP, XML, and UDDI.
Examples of different forms and types of web services:
- Consumable Web Services – D&B Business Verification and Address Verification
- Publishable Web Services – any component in the system can be a web service through Component Interface
Why use web services?
Web services are more than just a product of today's technology. It offers a great deal of benefits to business software systems. And these are:
- Loosely coupled applications
- Location transparency
- Code Reuse
- Better scalability
- Higher availability
- Multi-service applications development
Acronym Trivia
- UDDI – Universal Description Discovery & Integration. A digital version of the telephone directory which lists businesses from around the world through utilization of XML.
- LDAP – Lightweight Directory Application Protocol. A special type of software protocol which is used to allow any user in finding the needed data within a particular network through a public internet or a corporate intranet.
- XSLT – Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. A standard description on a specific technique that deals with transforming XML files into different and uniquely structured XML documents.
- XML – Extensible Markup Language. A special procedure of developing common information formats and then sharing it along with its data in the Worldwide Web (WWW).
- WSDL – Web Services Description Language. An XML based solution which is used to accurately describe business services and provide access for prospects to acquire these services online.
- SOA – Service-Oriented Architecture. Used as a foundation that supports effective and clear communications among services.
- SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol. This serves as an effective medium for programs running in the same or different operating systems to communicate clearly and accurately through the aid of HTTP and XML.
