Maintaining and managing disparate applications, databases and other information sources limits your visibility into enterprise information, slows adoption of new business processes and increases your total cost of ownership (TCO). Adding new applications or upgrades to existing applications compounds these issues and costs even more. How can you transform your company into a smarter, faster and more flexible enterprise?
You need a solution that increases the performance of your application infrastructure, makes your business more flexible and lowers your information technology (IT) costs. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach streamlines and modernizes IT structures while addressing legacy systems and application issues.
By integrating existing systems with standards-based services, you can automate, standardize, reuse and share business processes, applications and data to obtain the highest business value from existing and future IT investments.
SOA can allow the enterprise to realize your business architecture and provide the foundation for implementing your business strategy.
EDS Can Help You Accomplish Your Goal of Becoming More Agile
Transforming to an agile enterprise is a progression through multiple levels of maturity in business and technical capability. EDS' SOA and integration architects and consultants maintain an objective focus on your near- and long-term business goals. EDS provides an end-to-end portfolio of SOA and integration services to deliver quality solutions designed to lower TCO and reduce risk by incorporating agile architectures, governance, consistent quality and security standards from strategy definition through implementation and management.
How EDS SOA and Integration Services provides business benefits:
- Optimizes the value of new investments by using and building upon existing resources preserving legacy investment and assets
- Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) for applications by decreasing the number of disparate interfaces in your organization
- Improves access to and visibility of information through your entire enterprise and consolidates views of business-critical information, business processes and infrastructure issues
- Minimizes business and implementation risks when making routine or industry-mandated changes to a complex environment
- Improve agility to respond to business opportunities
- Align goals and performance of business services based upon their contribution to the product's value chain
- Improve time-to-market delivery of products and services
- Identify business services to realize economies of scale and specialized capabilities that cannot be achieved within the enterprise
- Streamline the workforce resource capabilities necessary for SOA and integration
- Ensure compliance with new industry and government regulations
- Provide guidance for industry-specific architectures
How EDS SOA and Integration Services provides IT benefits:
- Effectively integrate IT systems across the extended enterprise and through mergers and acquisitions
- Reduce the cost of change
- Reallocate IT costs from maintenance to innovation
- Design an agile architecture to support the client's SOA transformation and modernization initiatives
- Extend legacy applications with new systems and methods
- Enforce enterprise IT standards across heterogeneous environments
- Achieve the appropriate level of governance to facilitate progress based on the organization's SOA maturity evolution
Service-Oriented Architecture Raises Performance Levels
Having loosely coupled components interact in a standard and transparent way – regardless of their original platform, vendor or technologies – is fast becoming the architectural norm for mission-critical applications. Why? Because it promotes agility.
SOA leverages your existing infrastructure investments by consolidating and reusing existing software assets to reduce infrastructure complexity – incrementally transforming your business processes, IT systems and applications into a set of building blocks called "services."
EDS’ proven framework uses predefined styles, patterns, stacks and guides to expedite the build process. Our SOA Maturity Model helps define the core business and technical domains that pertain to your transformation plan. So your business reaches new performance levels with the right balance of speed, cost and quality.
The result is a simplified, flexible architecture to which you can add new applications faster and more cost effectively. And being able to react quickly to business changes gives you an advantage over competitors with more rigid infrastructures.
SOA Increases Speed To Market and Decision-Making Capabilities
SOA can reconcile data across disparate systems, allowing your applications to work together. SOA can optimize the flow of information across all of your business-critical applications, so customers, partners and suppliers can seamlessly share information in a consistent and standards based manner. The result: total information visibility that leads to better decision making.
Gauge Your Enterprise’s SOA Maturity
Find out how your SOA implementation stacks up against other organizations and your industry peers with the online HP SOA Maturity Self-Assessment Tool. This unique tool, based on HP intellectual property and IDC research, gives you a snapshot of your enterprise’s SOA maturity to help you move forward with your SOA initiative quickly and efficiently.
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