Is your organization struggling with: Manual and error-prone business processes? IT’s inability to support business customers’ fast-changing needs? Integrating disparate IT systems acquired during mergers and acquisitions? Quickly integrating new client data into your IT systems? Proquest Software’s Global Enterprise Integration Practice (GEIP) can help you solve these and other business challenges through the use of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to align your IT systems to your business goals.
SOA is an architecture, not a technology—a method of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing business software applications and infrastructure. It incorporates centralized and disciplined enforcement of industry standards, assembly of reusable autonomous business functions (also called “services”), and loosely coupled connections between services.
The objective of SOA is to allow businesses to extend the functionality and life of their existing IT assets, reduce architectural complexity, decrease duplication of services and data, and increase business flexibility and agility in responding to market changes. SOA is a way of molding IT technology around the needs of the business, instead of molding the business around IT.
Successful implementations of an SOA are built upon a sound foundation of elements which must all be present
Conceptual enterprise architecture—the essential framework.
Business and technical services—the heart of the implementation.
Enabling technologies—tie services together to achieve business functionality, and link SOA into current IT infrastructure and legacy systems.
SOA governance standards, policies, and metrics—control incremental development of over
Organizational and behavioral models—continuously evolve to support SOA enterprise.
SOA integration competency center.
