Integration & SOA Services: Business Case
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Maintaining and managing disparate applications, databases and other information sources limits your visibility into enterprise information, slows adoption of new business processes and increases your total cost of ownership (TCO). Adding new applications or upgrades to existing applications compounds these issues and costs even more. How can you transform your company into a smarter, faster and more flexible enterprise?
You need a solution that increases the performance of your application infrastructure, makes your business more flexible and lowers your information technology (IT) costs. An integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach streamlines and modernizes IT structures while addressing legacy systems and application issues.
By combining existing systems with standards-based integration, you can automate, standardize, reuse and share business processes, applications and data to obtain the highest business value from existing and future IT investments.
EDS Can Help You Accomplish Your Goal of Becoming More Agile
Transforming your enterprise into a truly agile one is actually a progression through multiple levels of maturity in business and technical capability. EDS' integration architects and consultants maintain an objective focus on your near- and long-term business goals. EDS Integration & SOA Services covers the full integration lifecycle: Assessment, Design and Development, and Management Services.
How EDS Integration & SOA Services transforms your enterprise:
- Optimizes the value of new investments by using and building upon existing resources
- Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) for applications by decreasing the number of disparate interfaces in your organization
- Improves access to and visibility of information through your entire enterprise and consolidates views of business-critical information, business processes and infrastructure issues
- Makes your business more agile by reducing the time it takes to develop, test and integrate new functionality or applications
- Minimizes business and implementation risks when making routine or industry-mandated changes to a complex environment
Service-Oriented Architecture Raises Performance Levels
Having loosely coupled components interact in a standard and transparent way – regardless of their original platform, vendor or technologies – is fast becoming the architectural norm for mission-critical applications. Why? Because it promotes agility.
EDS SOA Maturity Model
SOA leverages your existing infrastructure investments by consolidating and reusing existing software assets to reduce infrastructure complexity – incrementally transforming your business processes, IT systems and applications into a set of building blocks called "services."
EDS' proven framework uses predefined styles, patterns, stacks and guides to expedite the build process. Our SOA Maturity Model helps define the core business and technical domains that pertain to your transformation plan. So your business reaches new performance levels with the right balance of speed, cost and quality.
The result is a simplified, flexible architecture to which you can add new applications faster and more cost effectively. And being able to react quickly to business changes gives you an advantage over competitors with more rigid infrastructures.
Integration Increases Speed To Market and Decision-Making Capabilities
Enterprise integration synchronizes data among disparate systems, allowing your applications to work together. Integration also streamlines the flow of information across all of your business-critical applications, so customers, partners and suppliers can seamlessly share information. The result: total information visibility that leads to better decision making.
Enterprise integration also:
- Reduces interface development time up to 33 percent
- Lowers maintenance costs up to 65 percent by reducing the number of point-to-point interfaces
- Enables SOA
- Enables regulatory compliance
- Improves user productivity through better alignment of applications to business processes
- Enhances speed, consistency and accuracy of work products by enforcing consistent, standard processes throughout the enterprise
- Reduces B2B transaction costs
Lifecycle Support Streamlines Application Modernization
EDS Integration & SOA Services is an important component in any move toward applications modernization. A complete range of services that addresses the full integration lifecycle – from assessment and design to development and management – ensures you stay on track to meet your current and future business goals.
- Assessment
- Strategy and Readiness: Evaluates your organization's integration and SOA strategy and readiness to create a road map that defines the needed integration architecture.
- Governance: Analyzes governance at the strategic, management and operational levels to identify gaps in your current integration and SOA governance organization, processes, procedures and measurements. Defines a road map for a secure, reliable integration and SOA environment.
- Design and Development
- Service Identification and Definition: Examines and defines current business processes and application functions to identify the services that provide the most value to your organization. Develops a security approach.
- Services Development: Designs, develops, tests and manages services in your production environment. Creates functional and process diagrams. Identifies common frameworks.
- Enterprise Integration Development: Ties together and validates applications and Web Services, integrating them into business processes across your organization.
- Management
- Operations Management: Provides service bus management as well as Web Services hosting and operations support for your mission-critical enterprise integration software.
- Release Management: Establishes release creation criteria. Collects integration requirements and tracks their changes.
- Competency Center Management: Supports management of your integration and SOA environment based on your processes. Provides governance process support, project consulting and reuse repository management.
EDS Delivers Results
Our integration and SOA solution is built around your business needs. And because we follow industry best practices, you get the best possible outcome that includes all the benefits of a service-based approach.
EDS Integration & SOA Services:
- Increases enterprise agility
- Enables and optimizes new revenue opportunities
- Speeds adoption of new business processes
- Minimizes risks of adding new processes
- Improves flow and visibility of information
- Shortens time-to-market cycles
- Extends life of in-place investments
- Optimizes value of new IT investments
- Reduces total cost of IT ownership
- Results in better decision-making
- Boosts user productivity
- Enhances customer service, satisfaction and loyalty
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
Government Industry
EDS is behind the continued success of defense departments around the world. Our Integration and SOA Services provide seamless information sharing, which enables government agencies such as defense to be more responsive and agile.