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SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE |
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Using service-oriented architecture to achieve business agility. |
New Enterprise Architecture. The Itera Consulting Group’s new enterprise architecture emphasizes planning for a heterogeneous portfolio of applications and technologies. Enterprises evaluating packaged applications should consider if and when the vendor’s technology matches enterprise objectives. In doing so, enterprises will take back the ownership of architecture.
Applications are changing their architectures from closed, monolithic and merely Web-aware to “open,” componentized and Web-services based. |
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Maximize Reuse and Agility. Driving business agility and real-time processes will require use of service-oriented architectures.
Service-oriented architectures incorporate modular reusable business services that have clearly defined and standardized interfaces. Service-oriented architectures maximize reuse and agility and enable rapid business change.
Service-oriented architecture is replacing traditional monolithic architecture for new applications. It is great for composite applications (where older application components are wrapped through adapters and gateways for new-style programmatic access).
Service-oriented architecture is also useful in building multichannel applications where the same business functionality is surrounded by different user experience applications and devices.
Unprecedented Requirements.
The Itera Consulting Group helps clients upgrade to the new application architectures, within the context of a greater enterprise-defined architecture that enables agility and value-network collaboration.
Building an architecture that provides business agility and real-time processes means creating an IT infrastructure that meets as - yet unknown business requirements—a situation that throws traditional IT planning and design out the window.
Instead of dealing with concrete requirements from business, service-oriented architecture considers the next level of abstraction: the ability to respond to changing requirements is the new “metarequirement.”
We make sure that the the entire architecture—from the hardware and up —reflects the business agility requirement, because any bottleneck in an service-oriented architecture implementation can substantially reduce the flexibility of the entire IT environment, and hence the business as well.
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