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Business leadership needs to have control of its processes to compete and succeed in a fast and rapidly changing business world. The key to achieving this success is often agility in executing, aggregating and adapting business processes. Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the convergence of a number of approaches in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry to deliver this agility.
Most successful businesses have already implemented substantial aspects of their business processes in technology solutions. As a result they can become dependent on existing practices with these technologies that do not facilitate agility. ICT is often cited as a significant barrier to business change, or an obstacle with a long lead time.
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Fig 1. SOA terminology in context |
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SOA initiatives can address this issue if applied and managed appropriately. An SOA presumes change and exposes control of business processes as a business application. An SOA shifts the focus of implementations from ICT to business services and processes. It can align business and ICT, create a measure of ICT Governance, and achieve efficiency and effectiveness in reusing technology investments.
An SOA is a way of leveraging current business processes and web services, and reuse these in Enterprise Application Integration, Business Activity Monitoring and Business Process Management. The SOA approach enables both business and ICT to better align practices to enable agility, flexibility and scalability as the business changes.
With SOA, businesses can liberate their business strategy development from the constraints of legacy technical implementations and focus on the business processes rather than the technology.
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What is Plutonic Zoo offering? |
Plutonic Zoo helps organisations prepare for and move to architectures that enable services to be key enablers to integration and interoperability. Plutonic Zoo helps clients with a wide range of professional services to deploy SOAs using Business Process Management (BPM), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), legacy integration as well as Web Services integration from existing frameworks. We will enable you to:
- Clarify your business benefits and risks when adopting an SOA approach.
- Adopt the most appropriate approach and solution for your existing business and ICT Infrastructure with impartial advice.
- Review and recommend security requirements for applications that adopt SOA within the organisation such as intranets, rich clients and applications deployable outside the organisation.
- Develop pertinent SOA, SOA integration and ESB blueprints for your organisation.
- Achieve technical implementation by mentoring and supplementing your staff with technical skills, as needed.
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| How Does Plutonic Zoo Do This? |
We leverage our experience, expertise, perspective, insights and relationships to complement your in-house expertise in workshops, interviews, (group) discussions and operational assistance on a business and technology level.
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| What are the Practical Deliverables? |
Plutonic Zoo SOA engagement results include the following:
- A strategic plan to define the most appropriate SOA approach for your business.
- A detailed programme for necessary integration efforts.
- A practical and achievable SOA management and implementation approach.
- A global registry for SOA components that can be discovered.
- An SOA prototype including testing scenarios.
- Impartial evaluations of relevant products that meet the requirements of your SOA.
- A review of existing applications and designs to enable key areas of the business processes to align with independent services.
- Mentoring and oversight when transitioning to SOA.
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| What do you do Next? |
Contact Plutonic Zoo for a complimentary discussion to explore what can be accomplished for your organisation by phone on (02) 9401 0435 or by email on info@plutoniczoo.com.au.
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