Enterprise Architecture/SOA
Enabling Business Collaboration using Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) approach
Market Pressures are driving businesses to become
Real-time Enterprises by driving changes and determining
Real-time enterprise needs. Exchange of information
with business partners enables processes not only
within the enterprise but also outside the enterprise;
and becoming essential to achieve dynamic collaboration.
The result is that new strategies and technologies
for supporting collaborative activity – both
inside and outside organizations – are required
in order for organizations to move forward.
What is a Business Collaboration
“Set of Business Activities
that create shared value while managing
distributed risk.”
Mobilizing core value from other
organizations and combining with your own core values
to create new value
Collaborative Business Processes – occur across
multiple domains of control (both
intra and inter- Enterprise) by two or more Parties
playing two or more Roles
More later … but first some words about:
Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA)
SOA represents a style of architecture primarily
for application development that is typically multi-tier
and based on the principle of dividing business processes
into a series of subunits or services. The services
can then be assembled and linked together in a loosely
coupled environment to perform a desired application.
The services are defined at a level above that of
the traditional view of components. Re-use, speed
of design and flexibility are the desired goals.
Role of SOA in Business Collaboration
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Ability to manage a large community
of participants in an e-Service and e-Business system
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Manage central resources to
allow partners to quickly join the community and
integrate their own applications into the e-Service
network
The new frontier: open, flexible business
collaboration
The key changes that are happening in business environments
all point to a greater need for effective business
collaboration. In addition to the straightforward
relationship between the new innovation focus and
collaboration requirements, as explained above:
Today’s interaction environments
are fragmented and siloed
Portal technology and integrated “collaboration
suites” are becoming widely deployed, and in
some cases organizations are using up-to-the-minute
versions of tools in smart ways to make collaboration
easier. However when we look at user interaction environments
for knowledge workers – those who will typically
take a role in uncovering and managing innovation
– the vast majority of technology deployments
today typically yield fragmented and stovepiped environments.
SOA: providing the right collaboration
foundation
A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative
can, if done right, bridge the gulf that exists between
today’s systems and today’s business requirements.
SOA’s value to collaboration environments is
in helping organisations separate the “what”
from the “how” in individuals’ interactions
with software systems.
Because SOA focuses on interfaces and interactions
rather than implementations, a SOA initiative can
be used to create large-scale business software networks
where individual services are delivered by people
rather than automated software.
New collaboration technologies + SOA =
a compelling business Platform
Clearly, an approach to investing in and delivering
IT capabilities which maximizes the interoperability,
composability and flexibility of systems is a critical
part of how you can better support today’s collaboration
requirements: SOA has a major role to play.
Collaboration SOA – Moving to deployment
in live engagement scenarios
Intelligroup has formed an Enterprise SOA Practice
that will leverage the SAP NetWeaver® platform
to build services that are based on composite applications.
Intelligroup has developed composite applications
for the Chemicals and Consumer Product industries
that automate specific business processes leveraging
SAP exchange infrastructure (SAP XI) and integrate
business partners leveraging enterprise SOA.
Intelligroup is committed to innovation and thought
leadership. As a member of the SAP Enterprise Services
Community, Intelligroup will continue to strengthen
its relationship with SAP and contribute to the SAP
partner ecosystem.
Intelligroup’s vast experience in business
processes allows it to guide its customers in choosing
the right approach to enterprise SOA, and gain maximum
benefit from their ERP investment.
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