How to boost your business performance, reduce IT costs and enhance the flexibility of business processes?

In today's competitive global markets, Service-oriented architecture (SOA) holds key to meeting these challenges. SOA is a services-based approach for designing and building flexible IT solutions. Service-orientation describes an architecture that uses loosely coupled services to support the requirements of business processes and users. Resources on a networking and SOA environment are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation. These concepts can be applied to business, software and other types of producer/consumer systems.

Why SOA?

The main drivers for SOA adoption are that it links computational resources and promotes their reuse. Enterprise architects believe that SOA can help businesses respond more quickly and cost-effectively to changing market conditions. This style of architecture promotes reuse at the macro (service) level rather than micro level (objects). It can also simplify interconnection to - and usage of - existing IT (legacy) assets.

In some respects, SOA can be considered an architectural evolution rather than a revolution and captures many of the best practices of previous software architectures. In communications systems, for example, there has been little development of solutions that use truly static bindings to talk to other equipment in the network. By formally embracing a SOA approach, such systems are better positioned to stress the importance of well-defined, highly inter-operable interfaces.

SOA helps you combine new technologies and legacy systems.

SOA helps you

• achieve high performance through improved productivity
• faster time to market
• greater flexibility
• a more effective workforce

Web Services Protocols and Technologies

• XML
• SOAP
• WSDL
• UDDI and ebXML

Emerging Standards

• WS-Security
• WS-BPEL

Find out how Yale Consulting can help you achieve these benefits using SOA