Reasons
To
Adopt SOA
Reusing services with SOA
allows you to tap into the services that already exist in your company.
By building from your existing resources, you can streamline business
processes, ensure consistency throughout your company, and cut development
time.
Further, you
can reduce duplication of functionality in your services and continue using
proven core applications people are familiar with.
2.
Helps adapt to changing market needs
Many entrepreneurs recognize SOA can help businesses
develop and respond more quickly and cost-effectively to changing market
demands. Importantly SOA simplifies the interconnection to and the use of
existing IT assets of a company.
This includes the ability for the process entry point enabling enterprises to
know what's happening in their business as it happens so more timely decisions
can be made about addressing operation issues, improving a business
process, etc. with reusable and flexible services.
A recent survey on the adoption of SOA conducted by IDC reveals that among the
100 organizations that adopted SOA, most have focused primarily on reworking
business processes and adopting a common set of internal processes in order to
optimize efficiencies.
3.
Makes business process easy through connectivity
Another reason why enterprises implement SOA is to enhance connectivity to
systems Be it to developing new applications -- connecting systems,
workgroups, or geographically distributed subsidiaries; or teaming up with
trading partners - SOA helps in automating information and transforming
processes.
Importantly, enterprises can take advantage of
enhanced SOA connectivity to make system infrastructure and applications
seamless as well better integrating people, processes, and information in the
company. In addition to internal needs, a
company can also connect to external partners outside a company’s firewall
securely.
4.
Enables an organization to build strong Customer relationships
SOA focuses on the user experience to help generate innovation and greater
collaboration. This enables consistent human and process interaction to
improve business efficiency and user productivity.
In addition, by making SOA applications and
services available to Customers and suppliers, businesses can improve
relationships with them. Because of this,
enterprises can collaborate better with Partners and other
stakeholders and enhance Customer satisfaction.
5.
Reliability and helps in business expansion
SOA simplifies the process of management of distributed resources across
multiple platforms by being reliable, standards based, cost-effective, and
requiring less hardware.
As well, the company is better positioned for growth and expansion of a new
generation of applications to address new business needs.
According to Frost & Sullivan report, the emergence of enterprise
integration and a need for flexible business processes will trigger IT
adoption, and drive the demand for SOA as a feasible and popular option to achieve
a workable IT infrastructure.
6.
Increase business efficiency
You can simplify, automate, and track your business
process efficiently with SOA. Enterprises can share business processes in
a secure manner -- externally and internally and also ensure data integrity.
Furthermore, enterprises can effectively and proactively make timely
business decisions.
SOA enables a company to leverage information in a consistent and visible way.
By providing this trusted information throughout all areas of business, one can
empower all areas of the company to innovate and be more efficient.
Because of these benefits, according to IDC, SOA has and is
being implemented across a wide range of
industries including banking, brokerage, insurance, and government sectors.
To summarize, the SOA benefits are -
1. Flexibility - Ease of Change Isolation
2. Reuse - Improved Quality, Lower Costs
3. Transparency - Operational Management
4. Openness - Ease of Extensibility
5. Comprehensibility - Ease of Business Alignment
Jan 7, 2008