Clarifying processes around governance, quality and management can drive a broader, more successful SOA deployment — no matter where you are in your SOA journey.
It’s called the architecture of the future—but it’s really happening now. Its advantages include the agility to create and modify business processes, full utilization of IT resources and reduced infrastructure and development costs. Yet, despite the tremendous IT and business benefits of a services-oriented architecture, moving towards SOA can be risky.
Today, as enterprises are beginning to expand the use of SOA, they are acknowledging that it involves much more than creating Web services that communicate with each other.
In order to achieve better business outcomes—including improved responsiveness and lower cost—you need to address specific challenges. If you don’t, there is a very real risk your SOA initiative will fail.
The best way to get the full benefit of SOA with lower business risk is to concentrate on three key areas:
- Governance
- Quality
- Management
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Many organizations are inching their way toward service orientation, introducing services in a piecemeal fashion in response to specific business unit requests. Frequently, individual projects are built with an eye towards rapid delivery—and developers often overlook the bigger picture that should focus on building services that last and services that will be useful to the entire organization.
To accomplish this, you need to deploy SOA governance, which addresses issues of interoperability, deployment, quality of services and maintainability.
If you don’t take this long-term view, your SOA can easily become an ungoverned, unmanaged conglomeration of temporary services that don’t support reuse or scalability. Rather than achieving much-touted SOA benefits, you will be taking an approach that puts crucial business outcomes at risk.
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From a quality standpoint, organizations must take into consideration that an SOA service is, by design, a single point of potential failure. If something goes wrong, more than one business process is likely to be affected—and it may be difficult to locate the problem.
Testing also takes on a higher level of importance because the impact of putting a new service into production in an interdependent environment can sometimes lead to unexpected business outages.
An SOA is a highly complex environment to manage. In order to resolve performance-related issues, IT needs to extend existing tools with new capabilities that will help determine which service is causing the slowdown.
At the same time, you need a way to “operationalize” SOA.
Not all applications within an organization are based on SOA—and not everything is different about SOA. So you need to leverage the knowledge you’ve gained in improving your IT operations over the last decade by simultaneously applying it to SOA and traditional systems as you move forward. |
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As a technology partner, HP offers you:
- A clear understanding of the heterogeneous nature of SOA
- Extensive experience in providing SOA products and services
- A comprehensive set of offerings that are modular enough to be introduced at any point in the evolution of an SOA
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HP’s approach is different. We recognize that most organizations will have multiple integration tools—for good reasons—so we aren’t going to try to get you started by having you standardize on a single integration product or architecture. Instead, our tools and processes are designed to help you govern, test and manage your SOA across all your platforms—in conjunction with your traditional applications.
HP business technology optimization for SOA includes:
- For SOA governance: HP SOA Systinet helps to enforce policies across an enterprise, provides an SOA system of record and maintains the data, meta data and relationships relating to services.
- For SOA quality: The HP Quality Management products, including HP Service Test, HP Service Test Management, HP LoadRunner and HP Diagnostics, are uniquely designed to help control the risk of delivering business services in SOAs. With this product set, your IT teams can manage the quality of individual and composite services—and offer diagnostic capabilities such as application monitoring, problem isolation with tracing and root-cause analysis.
- For SOA management: Designed to fully manage a combined SOA and traditional environment, HP SOA Management is a comprehensive suite of products providing operations mangers complete visibility and control over the production environment. By managing SOA in conjunction with existing systems, this solution keeps business services and their supporting infrastructure synchronized, using models to describe and control relationships between loosely coupled services. HP SOA Management combines HP SOA Manager with the rest of the HP Operations Management solutions, including HP Business Availability Center and HP Operations Center.
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Whether you’re completely proficient with SOA, have already completed an assessment and are ready to go, or are still waiting to figure out what SOA is all about, HP has the expertise to help you assess your environment and can provide the quality, governance and management approaches you need.
Our goal: to help you increase your SOA adoption so you can optimize the business outcomes generated by IT. |
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Get started now – with services supporting HP business technology optimization for SOA
HP offers a rich portfolio of SOA services that take you from assessment and strategy, to deploying a full set of processes and organization structures, to collaborating with you to design and build services to meet your particular business requirements.
Choose from and rely on:
- SOA consulting services—with eight different services to help you at different points in your SOA journey:
-SOA Envisioning
-SOA Assessment
-SOA Governance and Architecture Service
-SOA Enablement Service
-SOA Center of Excellence Service
-SOA Service Development
-SOA Software Development Service
-SOA Management Service
- A complete battle-tested SOA delivery approach and methodology
- TheHP SOA Maturity Self-Assessment Tooloffers a simple way for you to obtain an assessment of your enterprise’s SOA maturity.
- Competency centers around the world to demonstrate to your organization what’s possible, and what’s practical, with HP business technology optimization for SOA. Centers are located in France, India, Singapore, Japan and the United States
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