SOA Consulting Services

SOA Software Consulting Services

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services are quickly becoming a dominant consideration in all phases of IT strategy and planning. According to Forrester Research, more than seventy percent of CIOs are piloting, implementing, or strongly considering SOA and Web services at their companies. The rapid adoption of Web services validates their strong potential for streamlining application development, reducing the cost and complexity of systems integration, improving system interoperability, and enabling more flexible and agile business processes.

When an organization transitions to SOA, either as a sweeping architectural initiative, or iteratively though adoption of Web services, it faces increased complexity in the integration and interoperability of systems as well as in the management of development, deployment, and testing functions. Additionally, security and manageability issues increase dramatically in a loosely coupled, distributed SOA.  Organizations quickly realize the need for a security, management and governance infrastructure for their SOA.

SOA Software, Inc., the leader in SOA Infrastructure is conducting a series of workshops with individual customers to help them identity where and how they can best take advantage of emerging technologies and standards in this space.  These workshops are designed to provide enterprises with the ability to more effectively and safely leverage Web services standards, and develop the in-house skills and processes to leverage the enormous efficiencies and flexibility afforded by a standards-based, loosely coupled architecture.

Each workshop is conducted at the customer’s offices and should include key stakeholders in the enterprise SOA including executives and managers from architecture, operations and security teams.  SOA Software will provide one or more of its industry experts to lead the workshop and provide feedback based on extensive industry experience.

SOA Software offers these workshops as part of an initiative to accelerate adoption of SOA and gather requirements for future product families.

SOA Assessment Workshop

Overview:

This one-day workshop is designed to assess the current state of SOA enablement and to establish a SOA roadmap.  This educational workshop will provide SOA Software and the customer with an opportunity to learn from each other about how SOA is being and can be used in practice across the enterprise.

Benefits:
• Accelerate learning and adoption of SOA
• Gain understanding of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture – from both business and technical vantage points
• Initiate sustainable best-practices, that increase re-use and reduce development and maintenance costs
• Identify recommendations for a service re-use, security, and management framework

Participants:
Customer Senior Representatives from architecture, security and operations groups.

SOA Software Senior Technology Executive, Senior Systems Engineer

Agenda:
Customer Brief update on status of company SOA initiative(s)
Discussion of active SOA and Web services projects

SOA Software Presentation of state of industry SOA adoption
Discussion of industry best (and worst) practices
3 case study presentations

Group Discussion of how SOA Infrastructure could be applied to customer’s environment and what the likely challenges are

Deliverable: High-level SOA roadmap

Duration: 1 day