Service oriented architecture for a loading function in a data integration platform

A loading function of an extract-transform-load data integration process is deployed as a service in a services oriented architecture by providing a module, the module being a data loading module for loading data into a target database that is associated with a data integration platform; by providing a registry of services; and by providing an interface for the data loading module; and identifying the data loading module in the registry; wherein the data loading module can be accessed as a service in a services oriented architecture.