The database administrator (DBA)

Today’s DBA is charged with:

• Design of the IT infrastructure
• Ensuring a flexible architecture is developed
• Ensuring re-use and efficiency
• Applying standards.

The relevance of the SOA Gateway:

• Supports faster data transformation
• Delivers the shortest path to the data
• Allows control of the data and what is exposed
• Ensures changes on the backend have no impact on developers.

Relevant SOA Gateway features:

• One set of meta data is maintained
• Runs local to the chosen database
• It is server-based and runs on same platform as, for example, ADABAS
• Reads and runs updates
• The Eclipse-based configuration tool gives the DBA full control over what data is exposed
• Security features are built in to restrict access to the configuration only if necessary.

See also:

• The SOA Gateway strategy
• How it works
• Technical overview.

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