TrueCredit uses SOA in order to develop applications to maintain its competitive advantage in the credit bureau industry. The subsidiary needed an application that could support 50,000 simultaneous users, another application to improve response time to less than a second, as well as a software application development procedure that would take 90 days or less.
2)In what ways did they gain competitive advantage by using SOA?
TrueCredit gained a competitive advantage by combining and reusing their services to create new applications to meet other business needs, keeping software development in-house while not having to start from scratch.
3)What specific "services" can you identify in a business like this?
TrueCredit is able to utilize SOA to help make resources available to their customers via their network. Customers should be able to check their current credit scores, check on interest rates, determine the status of their loans, etc.
4) Why is it so important to serve 50,000 simultaneous users?
TrueCredit offers credit reporting, scoring, and other financially related services on both its own and its partners' Web sites. If TrueCredit was only concerned with its own customers, then 50,000 simultaneous users would be a superfluous amount of traffic. However, since TrueCredit is the engine behind other company's products, 50,000 simultaneous users is not only important but necessary.
5) Classify this application using the material in Section 2.2.
TrueCredit's SOA system can be classified under several types of information systems. First as an interorganizational system because of its connection to two or more organizations, and second as a transaction processing system because of its ability to support monitoring, collection, storage, processing and dissemination of the company's basic business transactions.
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