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SOA Working Smarter Brochure
SOA Working Smarter Brochure
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Highlights
● Provide a more flexible infrastructure
● Provide a foundation for joint business/IT initiatives
● Align technology with the needs of the business
Today’s work
Business communities have dramatically changed the
way we work. Now entire markets appear, disappear, or move
halfway around the world—seemingly overnight. Innovative,
new products are being developed faster and keeping up
with market demands seems, at times, almost impossible.
Customers insist on better service and higher quality products
at lower prices.
to dynamic business requirements, reduce resource, mainte- Scenario 2: SOA entry points
nance and integration costs, as well as enable IT to seamlessly SOA entry points allow a business to start on projects that
bridge to new connectivity technologies that are in such have the most value and move to new opportunities quickly.
demand today. They allow the ability to solve immediate and, likely, straight-
forward challenges, such as connectivity, reuse, collaboration,
SOA applications and services can also be extended beyond information access and automation, in a way that can segue
organizational walls to your partners, suppliers and customers. into more substantial changes, should they become necessary.
And it provides a fast and reliable way of unlocking packaged
business applications, accelerating the delivery of industry- But for all the simplicity that the SOA entry points bring,
specific information and consolidating partner management it is very important to recognize that simplicity is not just a
and business-to-business efforts. So you have your entire principle that applies to basic projects. No deployment is so
organization working seamlessly and ready for any market- advanced that we can tolerate needless complexity. Smart
place situation—quickly. SOA requires simplicity as a tenet of good design. The Smart
SOA approach cuts through needless complexity.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission devel-
oped a new business model offering clients better and more For example, the Finnish Defense Forces enabled all their
varied service over the phone, at hospitals, in community branches to share common C4 applications and—by enabling
centers, offices and via the Internet, supported by a service- the dynamic reuse of services—allowed them to get new
oriented architecture using existing applications, saving applications out to the field in a fraction of the time, realizing
between 40 - 70 percent. an 80 percent reduction in development time.
IBM offerings for flexible connectivity IBM offerings for SOA entry points
Software Software
●IBM WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus ●IBM WebSphere Process Server
●IBM WebSphere Message Broker ●IBM WebSphere MQ FTE
●IBM WebSphere DataPower® Appliances ●IBM WebSphere Application Server
●IBM WebSphere MQSeries® ●IBM WebSphere Portal
●IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender ●IBM Rational® Asset Analyzer
●IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway ●IBM Rational System Architect
●IBM WebSphere Adapters ●IBM InfoSphere™ Information Server
Services Services
●SOA Infrastructure Consulting Services
●IBM WebSphere Portal Quickstart Services,
●Design and Implementation Services for ESB and
●IBM Testing Services
Message Broker
●Event Management and Monitoring for SOA
IBM Software 5
SOA Governance is key to a dynamic infrastructure that helps Together, they simplify and accelerate application develop-
organizations address higher service expectations and rising ment and end-to-end system deployment to help lower costs
cost pressures while providing a foundation for breakthrough even further. With SOA governance, you can more quickly
productivity, accelerated value creation and the increased gain executive buy-in and increase the reuse of business
velocity needed to achieve the faster pace that business and processes. And SOA Appliances provide the low-cost, low-risk
society demand. This dynamic infrastructure becomes instru- start for your SOA implementation.
mented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the
business and IT infrastructure to create new possibilities
across the business.
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