Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Partnering with EDS, an HP company, to meet the SOA Challenge
What Can SOA Help You Achieve?
EDS' SOA and Integration Services will assist you in your transformation to a more agile Enterprise, that will allow you to:
- Quickly respond to changing market dynamics
- Incorporate systems from your merger or acquisition with greater confidence
- Rapidly comply with changing regulatory policies
- Effectively align business and IT objectives
- Leverage existing investment in legacy systems
- Eliminate duplicate business systems
- Leverage distributed data
SOA & Integration At-a-Glance PDF, 190K
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not a quick fix for 30-plus years of IT complexity. But with proper planning and execution, SOA can deliver compelling business benefits in the short, medium and long term. EDS' SOA and Integration Services, backed by over four decades of IT experience, provide you the clarity of vision to achieve SOA through manageable and measured steps.
Transformation through Modernization to SOA starts with an EDS review of your IT structure and its Applications Portfolio and how they align to your business requirements. The SOA assessment will establish where you are in the EDS SOA Maturity Model and will define a SOA roadmap that matches your unique business requirements and technical capabilities. This roadmap serves as the guide for your transformation on the SOA journey.
You will have a clear direction on how to move forward in establishing SOA for your enterprise. EDS helps you focus on which services will yield the highest return on investment (ROI). We'll also address ways to mitigate risks related to adoption, security, performance, manageability and industry issues. Our sound SOA Governance principles that span the SOA lifecycle will ensure alignment from business to IT, allowing you to manage your SOA-based solutions with the same security, reliability and performance of your traditional systems.
EDS can help you accelerate your SOA journey by establishing a Center of Excellence. With our Center of Excellence Services, you can integrate a program for SOA governance, quality and management with lifecycle services to plan, assess, implement and manage your SOA initiative. By creating an organizational structure that brings together the diverse factions within your enterprise, you help ensure that the move to SOA is fully embraced by key business and technology stakeholders.
EDS consultants help you tailor an SOA Center of Excellence to the unique demands of your business. Your Center of Excellence assumes full responsibility for all SOA initiatives–from strategic planning to SOA infrastructure and operations. This singular focus helps accelerate your return on SOA.
We also support your SOA implementation through HP's integrated solutions for managing SOA featuring HP software. HP provides a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to help you achieve the business benefits promised by SOA: agility and lower costs. By concentrating on SOA governance, quality and management, HP helps you move past integration, simple web services and initial SOA deployments to a complete SOA transformation of your business.
What is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?
SOA & Integration Services Demo
The SOA & Integration Services Flash demonstration explains the five layers to address when implementing a service-oriented architecture. The demonstration explains how EDS approaches a SOA initiative, and includes an example from the airline industry.
Although SOA has been around as a concept for years, varying definitions still exist in the market place. EDS defines SOA as a conceptual business aligned architecture where business functionality or application logic is made available as shared, reusable services on an IT network. It is based on the concept of loosely coupled components that are capable of interacting in a standard and transparent ways regardless of the platforms, vendors or technologies running the components.
SOA enables IT to be more responsive to the demands of the business because flexible, standards-based components can be developed, combined and deployed rapidly to support business agility. SOA has become a critical enabler for companies to effectively respond to challenging market dynamics and capitalize on new business opportunities.
How Can SOA Help you Create a More Agile Enterprise?
- Interoperability – Standards-based components make IT systems more flexible and significantly simplify integration
- Reuse – Reduces development cost and time and increases quality of future applications
- Leveraging Legacy Investment – SOA allows you to use legacy systems by encapsulating the logic to preserve robust functionality, investment and intellectual capital
EDS: Vendor Profile Series for SOA Service Offerings
EDS launched a major investment program for service-oriented architecture (SOA), supported by the vision to develop a cohesive SOA approach that builds on the firm’s core competence, its Agile Application Architecture, and relationships with the Agility Alliance partners.
Read more about EDS: Vendor Profile Series for SOA Service Offerings
Demonstrating how the convergence of key technologies can be harnessed to transform the enterprise, EDS Fellow, Fred Cummins, mines his 35 years experience to provide IT leaders with the critical information, skills, and insights they need to partner with management and redesign the enterprise for continuous change.
Buy the book available on Amazon.com: Building the Agile Enterprise: With SOA, BPM and MBM
Service-Oriented Architecture Articles
EDS SOA Maturity Model
This model defines the core domains which EDS evaluates and uses to build a transformation plan to move these domain areas higher in the maturity model.