TEXT ANALYTICS AND DATA ACCESS AS SERVICES - A Case Study in Transforming a Legacy Client-server Text Analytics Workbench and Framework to SOA

E. Michael Maximilien, Ying Chen, Ana Lelescu, James Rhodes, Jeffrey Kreulen, Scott Spangler

2007

Abstract

As business information is made available via the intranet and Internet, there is a growing need to quickly analyze the resulting mountain of information to infer business insights. For instance, analyzing a company’s patent database against another’s to find the patents that are cross-licensable. IBM Research’s Business Insight Workbench (BIW) is a text mining and analytics tool that allows end-users to explore, understand, and analyze business information in order to come up with such insight. However, the first incarnation of BIW used a thick-client architecture with a database back-end. While very successful, the architecture caused limitations in the tool’s flexibility, scalability, and deployment. In this paper we discuss our initial experiences in converting BIW into a modern Service-Oriented Architecture. We also provide some insights into our design choices and also outline some lessons learned.

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Michael Maximilien E., Chen Y., Lelescu A., Rhodes J., Kreulen J. and Spangler S. (2007). TEXT ANALYTICS AND DATA ACCESS AS SERVICES - A Case Study in Transforming a Legacy Client-server Text Analytics Workbench and Framework to SOA . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 581-588. DOI: 10.5220/0002355805810588


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@conference{iceis07,
author={E. Michael Maximilien and Ying Chen and Ana Lelescu and James Rhodes and Jeffrey Kreulen and Scott Spangler},
title={TEXT ANALYTICS AND DATA ACCESS AS SERVICES - A Case Study in Transforming a Legacy Client-server Text Analytics Workbench and Framework to SOA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={581-588},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002355805810588},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - TEXT ANALYTICS AND DATA ACCESS AS SERVICES - A Case Study in Transforming a Legacy Client-server Text Analytics Workbench and Framework to SOA
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Michael Maximilien E.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Lelescu A.
AU - Rhodes J.
AU - Kreulen J.
AU - Spangler S.
PY - 2007
SP - 581
EP - 588
DO - 10.5220/0002355805810588