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5. CONCLUSION
In this paper we tried to demonstrate how web based services in
an SOA architecture can provide useful tool in enterprise
municipal information management for distributed
municipality's organization and citizens. This framework makes
use of a centralized enterprise-wide shared GIS to significantly
improve the availability and consistency of spatial and non-
spatial data across different software systems, integrate data
across various disciplines, and facilitate the flow and exchange
of municipal information based on Oracle SOA. The objective
of this framework is to provide the ability of gathering,
synthesizing, and reasoning efficiently in order to facilitate
municipal management and specific application services.
This approach would serve as an enterprise base for sharing and
integrating data across all municipal departments and software
systems which will reduce or eliminate inefficiencies of
information access and exchange, and thus lead to cost-effective
and more efficient operational and strategic decisions. Our
expectation is that the Service Oriented Architecture of GIS will
grow rapidly over the next few years, having been embraced,
cultivated and supported by all the municipal units.
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