How can your business stay ahead in a world that's changing every day? Can new problems actually mean new opportunities? The quicker your business can respond to change, the more competitive it will be. That's why a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is so important. It makes your infrastructure more flexible, so you can align your IT with your changing business goals. SOA solutions from CSI enable you to reuse your existing resources in new and innovative ways, helping you maximise the value of your investments.
Service Oriented Architecture , or SOA, to help streamline business processes. It's about creating an innovation-ready environment with the flexibility to introduce new products and services, enter or create new markets, and revamp business processes as soon as opportunities appear, or as soon as you happen to envision them.
Are your employees, partners, and customers enabled to take advantage of SOA to drive greater productivity and collaboration? People can interact with SOA-based business services and composite applications through an enabling framework of tools, and practices. The people entry point is a starting point for SOA, enabling people to interact with application and information services that support business processes. As a complement to the other entry points - process, information, reuse and connectivity - the people entry point can facilitate real time decision making and dynamic collaboration, and immediate execution. Overall, the people entry point approach to SOA drives business and operational flexibility and improves end-user productivity and collaboration
The process entry point is a business-centric starting point for service oriented architecture (SOA) that provides specific tools and services to help streamline and improve processes across the enterprise. By entering SOA from process vantage, you can establish the foundation for IBM's business process management with SOA. Improve the efficiency, flexibility, and control of key business processes.
Information as a service is an entry point to service oriented architecture (SOA) that offers information access to complex, heterogeneous data sources within your company as reusable services. These services may be available both within the enterprise and across your value chain. By entering SOA from an information vantage, you may improve the availability and consistency of information, while simultaneously removing traditional barriers to information sharing. Drive innovation by better understanding your organisation's operational, transactional, analytical, and unstructured information and making it available in new ways through SOA.
Service creation and reuse is an IT-centric entry point to service oriented architecture (SOA) that focuses on deriving continued value from previous asset investments, identifying services to be outsourced and designing new services to fill portfolio gaps. By entering SOA from a service creation and reuse vantage, you may expand access to proven systems and achieve greater value from your existing technology investments. In fact, a study by Software Productivity Research found that it can be up to five times less expensive to reuse existing services and applications than to rewrite them. Extend, enhance or create new processes enabling you to substantially increase business flexibility and responsiveness through reduced development time and elimination of duplicate processes.
Service connectivity is an IT-centric entry point to service oriented architecture (SOA) designed to help simplify your IT environment with a more secure, reliable and scaleable way to connect within and beyond your business. Link people, processes and information in your business with a seamless flow of messages and information from virtually anywhere at anytime using anything - that's true connectivity. SOA brings new levels of flexibility to such linkages. Delivering real business value on its own, connectivity is also a core building block for future SOA initiatives.
