Service-Oriented Architecture - Breaking down the boundaries
To keep up with the fast pace of business and escalating customer demands, organisations must have the agility to respond quickly to change. However, doing so requires an enterprise architecture that allows information to flow seamlessly between departments and across geographies. That's easier said than done in most companies, where information "silos" caused by legacy applications and a diverse IT architecture prevent smooth information flow.
Infologica's Fusion Framework provides a structured information processing and delivery framework that enables global organisations break down information barriers across the enterprise. Our Enterprise Fusion Framework product suite and B2B integration services delivers an end-to-end solution that addresses the four critical elements of business operations: business, people, process and IT.
The Infologica Fusion Framework and B2B integration solutions are designed to deliver measurable results and rapid ROI, and strike the right balance between business and IT needs.
We are experts in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), an application model that promotes the reuse of software features and simplifies the integration of those features into configurable business processes. With our SOA architecture, you can leverage your investment in existing systems by exposing their functionality to other applications as reusable services, which can then be configured into new composite systems.
Service-Oriented Architecture enables a truly agile enterprise in three key ways:
- Reduced IT costs: SOA takes a non-proprietary, cross-platform integration approach based on Web Services and related XML technologies.
- Improved business operations: SOA supports the configuration of automated business processes, such as "sense and respond" environments, which can be monitored, analysed, and adjusted to continually improve organisational efficiency.
- Faster market responsiveness: SOA helps IT teams respond more quickly to changing business needs, because they don’t have to build new features from scratch as business conditions evolve.
Infologica has the proven expertise, tools, processes, and best practices needed to ensure your SOA effort is successful. We can help you assess your current environment, identify features in existing applications that could be leveraged more broadly, prioritize the opportunities to focus on those most beneficial to your business, create a well-defined implementation plan, and then execute it in a timely, cost-effective fashion.
Our SOA Consulting Services
Encompassing assessment, planning, architecture design, development, implementation and governance.
SOA Strategy and Roadmap
- SOA assessment and strategy formulation.
- SOA enabled Enterprise-wide Architecture Roadmap definition.
- SOA Reference Architecture development.
- Architecture review and evaluation
- Evaluation and suggestion of technologies/platforms for implementation
- SOA Implementation Planning
- SOA Program management and Governance setup
Architecture Design
- Service Enabled Enterprise Architecture: Design the Process, Applications, Data and Technology Architecture.
- Products and Solution Architecture.
- Architecture modernisation.
- Architecture review and evaluation
- Reverse architecting.
Prototype Development
- Develop prototypes for early validation of approach, architecture for non-functional requirements, identification and evaluation technology choices and implementation strategy.
Implementation
- Based on Infologica's Enterprise Fusion Framework built on .Net, using Web services technology ESB, EAI, Application server products and Infologica's SOA toolset.
Testing
The inherent complexity in Service Oriented implementations demands a detailed testing process which would include process, code and design reviews apart from unit and regression testing for processes and services with the help of integrated testing framework. Infologica's SOA strategy is as follows:
- Test through development.
- Testing from service provider and consumer views
- Testing from different functional units - components, services, metadata, web services, business process and composite applications.
- Automated, iterative and continuous testing of each functional unit at periodic intervals.
- Automated scenario based testing for business processes.
To find out more about Infologica’s Service-Oriented Architecture solutions, consulting, and products, explore our SOA Products links or contact one of our consulting team.