SOA Reference Architecture

Faced with a myriad of information management challenges, many organisations struggle to achieve efficiency, flexibility and agility. But organisations are now realising the benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) because it offers an architectural approach built on a solid foundation that packages reusable business activity components as well-defined services.

Through SOA, organisations are successfully breaking down silos within and between enterprises and are able to create new business processes through inexpensive, timely and multiple use development.

What we do

Intelligent Pathways can help you with this "future vision" of the enterprise by focusing your SOA Reference Architecture around a framework which has been developed and refined through our extensive project history. This Reference Architecture, also referred to as the "SOA solution stack", defines the layers, architectural building blocks, design principles, patterns, technology options necessary for your enterprise to better realise the value of SOA.

Though a common framework we use common vocabulary across the many users who make up your business community, including staff, suppliers, customers and partners. One size never fits all, so we work with our blueprints and expertise in SOA to shape your own SOA Reference Architecture by:

• identifying architectural points for business alignment;
  
  
• working with you to develop a transition architecture or starting from scratch where necessary; and
  
  
• rapidly developing an executable architecture to enforce your decisions.
  
  

How you'll benefit

While SOA itself is an architectural style, it is important to understand that the right SOA Reference Architecture for your organisation is vital for successful SOA strategy. The real world project experience of Intelligent Pathways has enabled us to develop a repeatable and robust SOA Reference Architectures making your business systems, people and processes interconnected by taking into account your service requirements, existing applications and infrastructure tiers.

Intelligent Pathway's experience in the establishment of reference architecture for large service-oriented projects ensures that you achieve an SOA Reference Architecture which provides you with continuous alignment, lower maintenance and overall IT costs, lifecycle visibility, and the development of new IT-enabled capabilities.