INTEGRATION OF A WEB PORTAL AND AN ERP THROUGH WEB SERVICE BASED IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING APPROACH

The present business world is facing challenges in accessing their fragmented data to create an accurate and consistent view of their core information assets across the enterprise to drive business decisions and operations. To deliver timely, trustworthy and holistic information to various stakeholders, the enterprise has to employ promising data integration architecture. The Web Services approach based on service oriented architecture provides business agility through loose coupling and reusability of data assets. It enables applications and business processes to access relevant data consistently and accurately whenever it is needed no matter wherever and in whichever form it resides. This paper implements SOAP based web services to integrate data between a web portal and an ERP system. The Performance Testing is also conducted to study the behavior of web services under varying loads.