Sor is described/present in which enterprise information layer
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The Information Layer is responsible for manifesting a unified representation of the information aspect of an organization as provided by its IT services, applications, and systems enabling business needs and processes and aligned with the business vocabulary – glossary and terms. Associated with the primary objective of this layer are a number of capabilities. This layer includes information architecture, business analytics and intelligence, metadata considerations, and ensures the inclusion of key considerations pertaining to information architectures that can also be used as the basis for the creation of business analytics and business intelligence through data marts and data warehouses. This includes metadata content that is stored in this layer. It also supports the ability for an information services capability, enabling a virtualized information data layer capability. This enables the SOA to support data consistency, and consistency in data quality.
In particular, this layer can be thought of as supporting multiple categories of capabilities of the SOA RA:
Ability to support information services capability, critical to support a shared, common and consistent expression of data
Ability to integrate information across the enterprise in order to enable information services capability
Ability to define metadata that is used across the SOA RA and in particular the metadata that is shared across the layers
Ability to secure and protect information
Ability to support business activity monitoring and critical to the usage of the SOA RA and its realization