Services-Oriented Architecture
The challenge of delivering greater IT value while reducing IT spending is compounded by issues surrounding costly, isolated, and silo-based systems, and the increasing need for communication and collaboration inside and outside the organization.
A Holistic Approach
We are true thought leaders in service orientation; our thinking has been a huge influence on the evolution of SOA. Our approach to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) helps enterprises integrate existing systems, applications and users into a flexible architecture that can easily accommodate changing business needs.
Service-Oriented Architecture includes:
- Adaptive Architecture: user-centric platforms with robust e-commerce infrastructures that allow users from different organizations to safely and securely share data and processes
- Web Services: By knitting multiple services together, this supports rapid deployment of scalable, flexible composite applications across the enterprise, both inside and outside
- Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF): Our signature framework is used to achieve the integrated design of all these services. Its two main objectives are quality control and architecture delivery speed
The Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture
This architecture opens the way for new business opportunities by enabling highly collaborative business models that measure value and discrete return more holistically than traditional functional-benefit methods. SOA plays an important role in the resolution of many IT management issues, such as:
- Cost reduction: standardizes the way services talk to each other
- Delivering IT solutions better, smarter and faster: enables a more adaptive enterprise by creating standardized interfaces between services
- Improving the value of IT: helps create a better understanding of the true value of a service