The developers created a master dictionary, called a master XML tag library, to help organize and define the incoming data and the business services.
All inbound data and all registered services must conform to this master dic- tionary.
This information about data automatically creates interrelationships between inbound data sources and services, as well as between multiple services.
Polk’s proprietary orchestration engine uses the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) as the primary transport of data. As set up, the engine feeds an Oracle 10g database grid containing 21⁄2 billion vehicle trans- actions, representing ten years of vehicle ownership history that includes 500 million unique vehicles and 240 million households.
(That’s a lot of cars.) Joe LaFeir, RLPTechnologies VP of Product Development, stated that R. L. Polk now has a “state of the art data processing engine based on SOA that allows them to provide high quality information to their customers in the automo- tive industry and quickly respond to changes in their business.”