The Touchstone® services oriented architecture (SOA) consists of an application services front end and various clients that interact with the front end via a set of web services APIs (SOAP over HTTP[S]). The SOA is component-based, modular, and extensible.

Analysis management services control all analysis jobs using the HPC job scheduler and SOA broker.

Analytical services include the application services framework back end, which performs near real-time and batch analytical services, as well as batch data processing services.

The following diagram illustrates the Touchstone's SOA: