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“SOA is more than a group of Web Services or any other specific set of technologies; it’s a architecture.”
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Anjali Aragol-Subbarao, HP USA
Enterprise SOA
Companies of all shapes and sizes have spent billions of dollars on technologies designed to integrate and automate business processes. Many of these technology initiatives have failed to deliver the expected results, cannot respond to operational needs, or have failed to fulfill their company's business initiatives. These companies find themselves adjusting their business practices and growth expectations to conform to their technological limitations. They find themselves walking away from business opportunities because their technologies cannot not adapt quickly enough or provide the flexibility needed to facilitate strategic growth plans. They find technology is dictating how their business works, what opportunities they pursue and how quickly the can grow.
SOA is a technology strategy for change
Running a distributed enterprise is an exercise in rebuilding the car while you are driving it. Unless you have an architecture that is designed from the ground up with this in mind, you will be unlikely to succeed. In part, SOA grew out of a recognition for the need for these types of architectures. First and foremost, SOA is a technology strategy for change. The current business climate is changing at a rapid pace, and organizations that adopt a technology strategy that facilitates change and the leveraging of existing IT/vendor investments will be better prepared for it.
Most companies recognize they need to do something to stay competitive, but they cannot justify throwing out their massive investments in technology. They need to adopt a strategy that will help them leverage their exiting IT investments while giving them the operational flexibility they need.
They need SOA
Results from a 2005 study conducted by InfoWorld indicate that the majority of global 1000 companies have adopted an SOA strategy to get the operational agility they need to compete. The study also indicated that 79 percent of the companies surveyed identified SOA as one of their top initiatives for 2006.
Interactive Softworks' SOA offering takes a "business-centric" approach to SOA and provides SOA solutions that are driven by operational requirements. We combine operational requirements, business knowledge and technology to create agile SOA implementations that enable the convergence between business and technology. Interactive Softworks' business intelligence, combined with technology and supported by business automation tools, creates an evolutionary SOA strategy that addresses immediate business needs but also provides a long-term focus allowing your infrastructure to evolve.
How do you know if SOA is right for your company? Ask the following questions of your IT infrastructure. If you answer "yes" to one or more, you need to begin thinking about adopting an SOA strategy:
- Are you turning away or losing new business opportunities because your IT infrastructure cannot adapt or facilitate change?
- Do you need to run in a true 24/7, zero-downtime environment -- but can't?
- Do your competitors react to market changes more quickly than you?
- If one of your vendor systems fail, does your whole business suffer?
- Can you make changes to your business system without excessive downtime?
- Are you able to leverage your existing technology investments for new development initiatives?
- If one of your business applications becomes obsolete, can you replace it without excessive downtime?
- Can anyone tell you if your business system is working to its full potential?
- Can anyone tell you if your business system is ready to fail?
- Is your business system architected to facilitate all your business needs?
