Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to gain prominence in application development strategies. Many organizations may have embraced the technology and started down the path of SOA. 

SOA projects fail due to lack of direct experience, underestimation of the effort required, and poor planning. The costs associated with integrating existing systems with new platforms to support upcoming initiatives can be staggering when not approached with the guidance of an experienced technology partner. By leveraging this relationship many common pitfalls and pain points can be avoided:

• Slow to deliver on IT efforts that support key business initiatives
• Inability to leverage existing IT investment
• High IT costs of integrating applications on different platforms
• Difficulty of changing systems fast enough to support changes in business processes
• Abundance of manual, error-prone operational processes

The promise of SOA is that you can integrate disparate processes and have services that evaluate where information should be routed then performs information delivery. This information can be in the form of messages, email, documents, etc. This could reduce or eliminate the need to re-process information manually, thereby increasing responsiveness and eliminating manual errors. Tallan SOA architects can help you design a strategy and approach to your information management needs.

Tallan offers SOA Workshop and FastTrack engagements that are the ideal way to start making sense of SOA. Through mentoring, whiteboard sessions, a readiness assessment and other tools, the experience of Tallan’s consultants positively affect your organization. The Workshop is performed over a 3-5 day period and is designed to be a joint opportunity for Tallan’s architects to work with your staff in identifying key pain points and the role of SOA in addressing them.

The SOA FastTrack is a much more extensive engagement spanning 3 weeks in duration. Both are designed to help you wade through the murky waters of SOA and emerge emboldened, ready to tackle your organization’s business challenges.