SOA - What does it mean to those in Operations???

SOA represents a set of agreements among service requesters and service providers that specify what one can / should expect [QoS - quality of service, business & IT metrics].

By Definition

Services agreements are between entities, namely services providers and consumers. These

agreements are based on services specification and not implementation.

Focus is to ensure that the service specification is separate from the implementation, and, each service addresses some / many business requirement(s).

The question to be asked is, "How does one  define and enforce service-level agreements so that service functionality can be predictably and contractually delivered to specific service requesters?”

SOA - What does it mean to Implementation Specialist???

From an implementation standpoint, SOA represents a programming model complete with standards, tools, methods, and technologies - such as web services.

By Definition

SOA is synonmous with an architecture that makes use of web service technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. (for Implementators, SOA is a product that conforms to the the World Wide Web Consortium Web services architecture).

SOA - What does it mean to Business Architects???

SOA is an architectural style wherein a service-provider, service-requester and a service-description are involved. It enables the consumer (requester) to discover/find a provider - given the context of the service that is sought. It's characteristics are:

--- loose coupling, reuse and simple and composite implementations.

By Definition:

A system architecture in which application functions are built as components (services) that are

loosely coupled and well-defined to support interoperability and to improve flexibility and reuse.

SOA - What does it mean to Business Managers?!?

Dependant on a person's role within an organization, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), is viewed differently. Each of these perspectives may not provide a complete 'picture'.

For business managers, SOA are the capabilities that the business wants to expose as a set of services to clients and business partners, that is, a set of services is made up of the business services provided by the company within the framework of the industry they are in.

By Definition:

SOA is the method to identify  business processes as secure, standardized components / services

that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities.

Business Process Management - why, what, how???

Business Process Management enables businesses to continuously optimize their business processes and adapt them to rapidly changing needs.

 

Business leaders expect their organization’s processes to keep up with their changing business conditions. And in today’s competitive marketplace, implementing changes must be done rapidly while demonstrating value, at a lower cost.

 

Harness the full potential of your business processes and drive organizational commitment to process optimization goals and business objectives. BPM enables you to model, simulate, deploy, rapidly change and monitor business processes to:

·          Continuously optimize operational capabilities and improve business performance

·          Provide a real-time operational view with the ability to intervene fast

·          Enable business and IT users to rapidly drive process change and innovation

·          Faster delivery of new and differentiated products and services

·          Role-based capabilities to align process stakeholders to performance objectives

 

BPM suites includes a comprehensive set of software, services and industry expertise to support the common BPM adoption patterns and many different ways in which business process management is incorporated within organizations today:

Get Smarter Business Results...

CEOs want to SEE change - it is the only CONSTANT! Yet, the gap between those have done so and those that haven't is increasing every year!

To ACHIEVE SMARTER RESULTS, one must have agility in their operations. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables this - cut cost, improve customer satisfication.

Achieve Process Integration of legacy assets with newer deployments, within the organization and partners. Enable your organization to be nimble and flexible through the implementation of SOA.

More info: Computants Inc