xDaaS: Any Data as a Service
Amarnath Palavalli, Durgaprasad Karri, Swarnalatha Pasupuleti · 2016
Integration of products in enterprises comes with hard challenges due to several factors such as products developed in house, off the shelf, developed over different time lines, available as services over internet, ever changing product APIs, disconnected data models among the products, extensions developed by partners and customers and many more. We propose Semantic Data Platform (SDP), built around the semantics of the information derived out of product integration. This approach of semantic model based data sharing provides extreme loose coupling among products, makes extension of information from a given product possible with zero impact on rest of the system. Easy certification of integration enables evolution of products fairly independent of each other. SDP offers semantic federation and querying, therefore it can fetch any data irrespective of the product where the data lives. Thus, 'Any Data from a product can be offered as a Service'.