DESIGN FACTORS FOR SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTUREAPPLIED TO ANALYTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS:AN EXPLORATIVE ANALYSIS

Today’s analytical information systems demand innovative architecture concepts in order toaddress requirements like flexibility and faster time-to-market. Service-oriented architectures(SOA) as a current trend might meet these challenges. So-called BISOA describes theapproach of deploying SOA in Business Intelligence systems. We identified two researchquestions aiming at finding insights about the interdependencies of BISOA and theorganization’s system landscape: What are the dominant design factors of BISOA and whatare the distinct realization approaches of BISOA? The paper answers the questions by meansof empirical research. Besides the factor describing the degree of BISOA realization, threefurther design factors resulted from the analysis: excellence in embedded BusinessIntelligence (BI), process orientation, and excellence in data management. Depending on thefactors distinct approaches of real-world organizations to deploy SOA in BI systems werederived....