Service-Oriented Architecture
If you've been hearing about the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—or, by extension, Services Infrastructure—you may need help navigating the hype to understand how it's applied in a real-world setting. With Enterpulse, you can discover how implementing a common services framework can help you ease your most persistent pain points specific to your business and industry—ultimately driving cost savings.
We can use the findings and metrics we expose within a Corporate Performance Management consulting engagement to define and develop process-enabling functionality, or "services" within your technology infrastructure. Or, you may already be well on the path to SOA, at which point we can help you implement or extend a services-based framework across your organization. At any point in the process, we can ensure your SOA helps you:
- Leverage your existing technology investments by focusing on business process, rather than the underlying IT infrastructure
- Establish the reuse of services and functionality across your enterprise for true cost savings
- Build in flexibility to easily add new departments, lines of business, back-end systems, or applications over time
At Enterpulse, we're leveraging the service infrastructure as a foundation for portal solutions and software development, and are experienced in the industry's premier SOA suite, BEA's AquaLogic Product Suite.
Making SOA Work for You
Below are just some of the myriad questions you may be asking. Find out how SOA can help you reduce costs while building in repeatable processes and functionality to empower a workforce, engage external customers, and streamline partner and supplier relations:
- How can I make my company's employee intranet portal more valuable to our users?
- How can I manage customer account integration during my merger or acquisition?
- How can I quickly onboard new suppliers into my supply chain?
- How can I make key product or performance decisions using my existing data?
- How can I make my regulatory compliance efforts more automated?
Transform your employee-facing portals from static content sites into valuable dashboards that expose key business processes-and increase the productivity of your workforce. With SOA, you can service-enable core functions and provide access across all of the applications your employees use every day.
How can I manage customer account integration during my merger or acquisition?Provide your CSRs or account reps with a single point of access to thousands or even millions of merging customer records. Using an SOA-based interface, you can streamline the migration of customers to your billing and financial systems—heightening efficiency and reducing customer churn.
How can I quickly onboard new suppliers into my supply chain?Before SOA, adding new suppliers required a customized, time-intensive effort of re-coding the same product data. Now, you can automate the onboarding process and make information immediately accessible to all suppliers through a common services framework.
How can I make key product or performance decisions using my existing data?Having access to consistent, actionable product or performance data can be a challenge. Often, that data is locked away in data warehouses or ERP silos, fraught with duplication and inconsistency. Accessing an open, services-based repository of key metrics—across programs, departments, or product lines—lets you make create decision reports based on timely, accurate information.
How can I make my regulatory compliance efforts more automated?Improving oversight and accountability means ensuring consistent, accurate reporting. With SOA, you can architect common services related to regulations—from analytics and auditing, to conflict resolution and policy reporting—and reuse them across the organization.
>> Contact us to get started with a roadmap for SOA.
