Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) has become almost the de facto model for architecting modern systems. Now that SOA has been around for a number of years and is actively used in many organisations, there has been is a major shift in the nature of people’s interest in SOA. Whereas it used to be about justification of SOA adoption and how to get the business on board, it is now about how to implement SOA successfully. However, for many businesses, actually delivering on the SOA promise of a truly flexible IT architecture that increases business agility and produces a solid return on investment has remained challenging.

Successful SOA isn't a technology initiative - it's a business initiative backed up by IT. SOA defines service level interactions which are coarse-grained business requests. The challenges involved in bringing SOA into an organisation cut across organisational boundaries, challenge the ownership of systems and data, result in changes in funding and reward models, and require a more interactive approach between IT and business.

Object has been developing enterprise level component-based systems for the nearly twenty years and has specialist expertise in the area of SOA.We are experienced in planning, delivering and managing SOAs using a combination of our architectural experts and the templates, roadmaps and deliverables defined in Process Mentor – Object’s software engineering process. Process Mentor was defined from the ground up to support the creation of distributed, object-oriented, component-based systems. As such it is inherently aligned with/to the principles of SOA.

We can help you with:

• Architecture Assessments and Reviews
• Architecture Strategy
• Architecture Blueprints
• Architecture Transition Plans
• Architecture Development
• Architecture Consulting Services
• Training, Mentoring and Coaching

For further information on Object's SOA services please contact us.