Flexibility to make you more competitive
Business pressures today favor highly adaptable organizations. At Ishi Systems, we help clients adapt their business processes to respond to changing business environments, new market opportunities or competitive threats, by making them more responsive to change, through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
SOA is fundamentally about describing, building, using and managing your IT environment with a service based view of your critical functions, so you can focus on what really matters: your goals, service quality and customers.
SOA @ Ishi enables all your software investments to be integrated into a single cohesive unit, so companies can quickly create, combine and deploy business applications and IT infrastructures with minimal functional friction between the enterprise, core customers and partners.
Challenges
The biggest challenge to streamlining IT is the enterprise architecture and development of the past, that have been piled onto mission-critical systems, resulting in rigid and inflexible information technology (IT) architectures.
Over the years, often working in internal silos, organizations have developed applications without any real concern as to how these applications should communicate with each other. Be it ERP packages, data warehousing applications, client-server programs or even web based applications: the approach was limited to being purpose-specific at the time of development.
As time went by, companies have woken up to the need to ‘open up’ these applications – in other words, reuse the existing business logic and data exchange between these applications without having to throw away or re-write most of their applications.
Benefits
SOA addresses this by providing a service layer on top of traditional systems provided by enterprise components. SOA emphasizes interoperability, location transparency and standards.
Such flexibility helps to not only leverage existing technology assets more effectively, but also to make rapid system level changes, to meet changing business needs and support the execution of your strategic decisions.
It modernizes your application infrastructure while addressing legacy system and application issues. The overall benefits include reduction in cost and risk involved in deploying new business services and processes.
SOA @ Ishi
Web protocols such as HTTP and payload standards such as SOAP and XML are natural choices for implementing Service Oriented Architectures. Services may be built using diverse technologies, including application servers based on .NET or J2EE, middleware solutions or adapters for database systems that enable access to data via web services.
At Ishi, we have helped our clients deploy SOA functionality through web services; messaging products coupled with an integration layer; and with JMS along with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for integration on TIBCO, BEA/Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Open Source platforms.
