Netlan Technology Center, Inc.

Have you ever wondered what type of problems can Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) solve in organizations?

SOA is comprised of many disciplines. Each can offer solutions to enterprise concerns on different business and technology levels. Here are some important challenges that you are probably aware of:

How Can We Better Reuse Our Organizational Assets?

SOA can immensely contribute to better asset reusability in organizations, and as a result reduce enterprise expenditures and improve their bottom-line earnings. Duplication of resources and efforts can be reduced, and utilization of systems, services, components, and even hardware can be improved.

For example: An inventory count of in-house trading systems that was conducted by a Wall Street investment banking institution, revealed that their IT organization has been developing and maintaining seven different versions of Customer Profile applications in the past six years.

How Can We Reduce Our Company’s Products Time-To-Market?

SOA provides a wide range of architecture and design standards, best practices, and supporting technologies. These SOA enablers can facilitate the construction of modular and componentized source code, by encouraging development personnel to build reusable components, and services, rather than constructing tightly-coupled systems.

For example: Web services technologies provide standard messaging protocols, and consumer-producer interaction capabilities to facilitate better service reusability, and offer loose-coupling mechanisms. A Client Account application can be broken down (decomposed) into several smaller Web services such as Savings Account service, Checking Account service, and Trading Account service. Each can reduce software complexity, increase asset reusability, increase business agility, and reduce time-to-market.

How Can We Better Manage & Govern?

SOA offers a wealth of organizational governance practices such as:

SOA governance policies encourage business and technology management to better plan projects, and more accurately forecast return on investments (ROI). In addition, SOA provides powerful mechanisms to enhancing budgeting systems, and better allocating funds to projects, and product construction.

SOA can enhance management capabilities, and improve the alignment between business and IT organizations, by introducing SOA advanced organization models that can facilitate the establishment of efficient management structures, and help with better matching personnel skill sets to business and technological requirements. And Much More...