Your company has an urgent need to become a leaner, faster and more agile enterprise. You hope to accomplish this in a cost effective manner by leveraging existing IT investment. Your challenge is to make disparate systems, applications and processes work together in a more efficient manner and establish a more agile environment for introducing new solutions.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution will enable you to streamline and modernize your IT structures while addressing legacy system and application issues.
EDS SOA & Integration Services Methodology
For such a complex task, you need an experienced integrator with a tested approach and proven processes. Our methodology incorporates the best practices learned since we began integrating complex application environments in 1995. Our project team works with you to execute a robust, eight-phase methodology framework tailored to your strategic vision, business direction and business processes.
This framework is supported by our end-to-end SOA portfolio of 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. Phases include high-level activities that will assist you through the entire lifecycle.
Define Phase
- Develop Project Plan
- Develop Metrics Plan
- Develop Communication Plan
- Gather integration and SOA requirements
- Determine service identification approach
- Gather user-centered design requirements
Analyze Phase
- Assess current environment
- Identify critical success factors and risks
- Identify and prioritize key interfaces and services
- Identify candidate services
- Develop services recommendation
- Develop Trading Partner Education Strategy and Plan*
- Customize and conduct Trading Partner Questionnaire*
- Develop Trading Partner Profiles*
- Perform gap analysis
- Define test plans and test cases
*For B2BI only
Architect Phase
- Validate requirements
- Identify alternative solutions
- Develop logical architecture
- Develop technical architecture
- Identify and conduct product evaluation
- Develop physical architecture
- Develop Bill of Materials
- Develop a Proof of Concept solution
- Develop Integration and SOA Governance Model
- Define Technical Solution Road Map
Design Phase
- Validate interface and service requirements
- Design security implementation
- Develop integration specifications
- Design services interfaces
- Design transformations and service assemblies
- Design business rules implementation
- Design business activity monitoring implementation
- Develop contingency plans
- Design services management
- Define operational support specifications
- Develop test specifications
Produce Phase
- Configure and install development and unit test environment
- Build and document the integration solution
- Develop services
- Apply security policies
- Build the enabling application services
- Publish services
- Build business rules
- Build business activity monitoring
- Develop services management
- Build end-system simulators
- Perform unit testing
- Develop operations support documentation
Optimize Phase
- Develop integration test plans, data and scripts
- Configure and install integration test environment
- Implement version control/configuration management
- Execute system test cases and scripts
- Conduct load/stress testing
- Update registry status
- Develop end-user/operations training plan
- Execute end-user/operations training
- Refine operations support documentation
Implement Phase
- Conduct knowledge transfer from the development staff to production support personnel
- Monitor production performance and support any corrective action
- Develop Production Implementation Plan
- Install and configure production environment
- Migrate solution to production environment
- Evaluate and improve Integration and SOA intellectual capital
- Perform project shutdown
Operate Phase
- Perform transformation management
- Monitor integration operations and services
- Perform incident management
- Perform problem management
- Develop minor enhancements
- Perform minor software upgrades
- Perform release management
- Perform close down
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