SOA Integration: Solve your Agileocrity

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Dain Hansen's Blog | April 2, 2008   5:53 PM | Comments (0)

In today’s dynamic business climate, inflexible infrastructure can result in lost customers, lost revenue, late entry into emerging markets…oh wait…you’ve heard this before!

Why haven’t you fixed it already? You are so not agile.

Your Excuses: Your boss says for you to do more with less; getting over SOA troughs of disallusionments; new buzz words like EaaS (Everything as a Service); anything with the word ‘federated’ in it; virtualization; events; there is a recession (maybe); and your taxes are due.

Don’t panic. Breathe. Breathe in SOA Integation.

SOA Integration is about getting more flexible. It clears the path for your business by transforming brittle IT systems, applications, and data sources into highly flexible, reusable services that can be shared across the enterprise. Service enable your business logic why don’t you! 

Now that you are breathing easier, we believe that SOA Integration is about the unification of these integration elements into these 4 important categories.

• Service Integration – An ESB provides enterprise-wide IT-agility and flexibility.
• Data Services – Better information. Better decisions your company can make by better connecting multiple system views as a service.
• Process and App-Integration – All apps are not the same, you’ll need some heavy-lifting.
• SOA Connectivity – the last mile is the most important mile of your SOA.

Leveraged together with BPM, the combined approach enables better Business Integration and revolutionizes your IT’s ability to meet what the business wants. 

Controlled by a SOA Governance Framework, the combined approach gets you closer to enforce what you actually intended to integrate.

Rise above the mediocrity: get yourself acquainted with SOA Integration using some of these great resources below!

• Taming the Challenges of Business Integration – Mike Gilpin from Forrester talks about real-world SOA and trends in Integration
• Business Integration with SOA, a Revolution in Business Agility – BPM and SOA are better together!
• Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration – All you need to start thinking about key requirements for SOA Integration.
• BEA SOA Reference Architecture – Let someone else do the hard work for you.

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