Behind most application silos are heterogeneous data stores. Most businesses require secure and managed data access across these federated data stores, data service transactions, and data transformation and validation. An organization's data exposed as a service, decoupled from the infrastructure where it is stored is called data services in SOA.
The WSO2 Data Services Server augments Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development efforts by providing a simple, easy-to-use platform for integrating data stores, creating composite data views, and hosting data in disparate sources as WS-* style Web services or REST-style Web resources. Data services provide unprecedented data access and straightforward integration with business processes, mashups, gadgets, business intelligence and mobile applications.
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