The value of employing a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for creating, maintaining and enhancing application infrastructure has been emphasized by most IT experts. The ability to map business processes into software components with singular interface provides unparalleled flexibility in developing new applications.
The SOA methodology has brought us a step closer to realizing the dream of developing applications that mould themselves to fulfill business objectives, rather than vice versa. An enterprise SOA helps the applications to respond rapidly to the changing business requirements and goals.
Though the benefits of SOA based IT architecture may want you to immediately jump in to the implementation bandwagon, a look at the inherent challenges may want you to think again. An SOA implementation is a detail oriented, technically challenging and time consuming exercise. It requires an in-depth knowledge of the business processes along with the will to translate them individually into software function. Even if the IT team may have the will to work on these details, limitations in skilled staff, manpower, and business user time constraints etc. may bog them down. To top it all, the entire effort may lay waste and not translate into anything productive if the software applications fail to attain the true business focus.
To make sure that an organization avails the maximum benefit of SOA a tested approach must be employed. iSummation has developed a Requirement Development Translation (RDT) approach for directly translating business requirements into developmental code. In this way, the business processes help mould the IT applications in a way that the business benefits are maximize. Since there exists a direct link between the requirements and the developmental code, it is simple to track the impact of business on IT. This methodology furthers the goal of making applications flexible for future needs implementation.
Using the RDT approach the developer productivity is enhanced as the direct link between IT and business is understood by the developer. The direct mapping of IT components to business needs enables easy adaptation to the mutating processes. With the increased ability of business processes to drive IT efforts the applications are better synchronized to deliver results for the business. The employee productivity is improved and better quality results are produced. Also with the integration various application, data traverses through various applications allowing better and quicker awareness of changing scenarios. With more and more business users making informed decisions, right choices are made, propelling the company towards better success rate.
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