Beschrijving

Today, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a mainstream IT initiative that ranks among the top priorities of CIOs. SOA dramatically improves the flexibility and adaptability of organizations by accelerating the time to market for new applications and processes, driving down IT costs by making services highly reusable and building business processes to support change. As a result, organizations can react faster, seize new opportunities and respond more quickly to competitive threats. But with these benefits come new risks. If not properly implemented, SOA can disrupt the business. If you build the wrong services or build them in the wrong way, you will not be able to use them to compose new applications or business processes. Or worse, you will jeopardize a key business by using a service that is untested, ungoverned and unmanaged. Instead of becoming more agile, your business could become more fragile. Creating these new processes is clearly a risky endeavor. Attempting SOA without these processes is even more risky. Enter HP. As the leader in business technology optimization (BTO), HP addresses the unique challenges of SOA across the lifecycle, from planning to inception to deployment, including those of SOA stakeholders such as service consumers, service providers and the CTO office. HP combines an integrated solution for SOA governance, quality and management with services that take you from planning and assessment to deployment and management. This increases the efficiency, performance and operational integrity of enterprise SOA deployments. This paper summarizes the business benefits of adopting SOA, describes the obstacles that must be overcome and outlines the BTO approach that HP uses to optimize the business outcome of SOA.