Minicase 2.2

1. What were the major reasons the company had to use SOA?
A. The company wanted to maintain competitive advantage by adopting an application that can:
a. Support 50,000 simultaenous users
b. Improve application response time to less than a second
c. Be made in 90 days or less

2. In what ways did they gain competitive advantage by using SOA?
By using SOA, the company was able to quickly and easily collect and analyze data from multiple sources.

3. What specific services can you identify in a business like this?
In a business like this, the kind of services that can be identified is a service that offers consumers credit reporting, credit scoring and related financial services on both its own and its partners' Websites.

4. Why is it so important to serve 50,000 simulatenous users?
I believe that it's important to serve 50,000 simulatenous users because of the fact that everyday, every single hour and every single minute thousands of people are requesting services like credit reporting, credit scoring and other things of that nature. Because of this, the company needs to ensure that there is a sufficient amount of available users supply to serve the consumers. It is a fact that when access to a server is limited to small number of users, the server or system tends to process slow, which would create backlog and problems for the company, would create complaints from customers and other concerns. In truth, no company would want to experience these problems.

5. Classify this application using the material in Section 2.2.
I would classify the application as communication and collaboration system, a system where employees and customers can interact and work together more efficiently. I would also classify this as document management system, where electronic documents, in this case the credit reports, scores, etc., can easily be obtained for the consumers.