Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained
rapid and widespread acceptance as the most-effective
style of building enterprise IT infrastructures
for business agility. Low development and maintenance
costs (made possible by rapid deployment of
new functionality that reuses existing code)
and greater flexibility (through improved responsiveness
to business needs) are just some of the attractive
benefits that SOA enables, making it much-hyped
trendy technology that it already is. And all
this hype is not undeserved. Though the philosophy
behind SOA isn't all that new, the practical
approach followed by this evolutionary technology
definitely is.
CTE’s
Unique Value for SOA is derived from its popular
“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast”
process.
SOA has gained momentum in the industry only recently,
but CTE was among the pioneers in harnessing the potential
and promise of the then emerging technology, and took
a lead in setting the trend two years ago, delivering
a large horizontal information sharing initiative
using the service orientation techniques. Our continued
investments into the SOA research gave birth to robust
SOA frameworks - the A2IT or the Affordable and Adaptable
Information Technology and the SOA Left Hand Right
Hand frameworks.
SOA
for Success
Think Big:
CTE starts the SOA migration roadmap with a blueprinting
strategy that details the "as is" state, the "to-be"
state and the transition methodology. The alignment
between business & IT is achieved early in the cycle.
All the key elements of IT Infrastructure, IT Architecture
and IT Planning are evaluated. The ROI values are
determined and O&M cost reductions are highlighted.
Start Small: Historically, CTE
has been proving time and again that a big bang
approach is not only risky, but too expensive for
deploying enterprise-wide initiatives. Having developed
the blueprint, CTE breaks the entire implementation
into small, manageable spirals. Each and every spiral
provides demonstrable benefits in short intervals.
Feedback from the spiral is used to enhance the
next spiral while adding functionality.
Scale Fast:
Executing the streams of work in a spiral-based
fashion to produce usable results every 3 to 6 months
helps drive constant progress, ensures low risk
implementation, and enables course corrections at
the earliest possible point. CTE is CMMI Level 5
certified company. It applies RAD to deliver quick
spirals while following the process driven CMMI
approach for maintaining high quality standards.
