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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
You need a realistic approach to integrate, simplify, and deliver highly flexible resources to support your agency's missions. An incremental approach can help you achieve real-world success with a SOA implementation.
 

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) aligns your IT resources with your business goals. With SOA, you can unlock your IT resources from their application silos and make their agency functionality broadly available. By making information and IT resources available to your employees without the constraints of homogenous systems, you can empower everyone in your agency to make better decisions, be more productive, and address their business challenges.

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Although SOA has a great deal of promise, it can be challenging to develop and implement a comprehensive plan that has the necessary buy-in from stakeholders and is not cost-prohibitive. Additionally, with the "rip and replace" approach that some SOA solutions require, these challenges can become insurmountable.

That's why we suggest an incremental approach that focuses on your business goals, integrates your existing IT resources, and maximizes the return on your SOA investment. This can be achieved through a three-phase process:

Phase 1: Expose. In the first phase, your existing IT resources (such as legacy systems and line-of-business applications) are made available through standardized messaging formats, such as Web services.

Phase 2: Compose. The goal of the compose phase is to improve business flexibility and agility by allowing you to add or change processes without being constrained by the underlying IT systems and applications. You achieve this by culling the services you exposed during phase 1 into larger business processes or workflows.

Phase 3: Consume. In the final phase, you develop the dynamic (or composite) applications that consume the underlying services and processes. Applications, such as rich client, Microsoft Office, mobile devices, or Web technologies (like portals or AJAX), drive the productivity of your end users.

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The Microsoft Connected Industry Foundation

The Microsoft Connected Industry Foundation is a network of SOA industry leaders that can provide you with SOA planning and implementation resources, such as: best practices frameworks and methodologies; tools and out-of-the box capabilities; and training, support, and consulting services. A participating member can help you develop a realistic, incremental plan for implementing SOA that begins with a focused understanding of the business needs you want to address. Members can help you develop a plan that is:

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  • Driven by realistic goals.
  • Clearly defined (and usually limited) in scope.
  • Governed by strategic vision.
  • Mapped to processes and desired outcomes.
  • Implemented as incremental, iterative projects.

These foundation members can provide you with SOA implementation resources:

Advantage Factory is a professional services consulting firm whose core offerings are centered on the design and implementation of loosely coupled systems that facilitate rapid adaptation to change. They have many years of experience designing and implementing policy-based SOA and ESB solutions that allow customers to effectively leverage, scale, and govern their processes.

AmberPoint was the first vendor to certify its SOA runtime governance solutions for the Microsoft .NET Framework. By fully utilizing the Web services system libraries of the Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR), AmberPoint helps its customers to better leverage the advantages inherent to the Microsoft .NET Framework. This results in performance optimization for environments built on the .NET Framework, greater security facilities, tight integration across all .NET system components, and smooth upgrades as new .NET-connected technologies become available.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) helps government customers implement IT solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enables them to benefit from the advanced use of technology. With approximately 87,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration, IT and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, and management consulting.

iTKO LISA's SOA Testing and Validation solutions provide a complete, collaborative, and continuous SOA quality platform for the entire development and delivery effort. In a single test environment, iTKO LISA provides no-code unit, functional, regression, load, and performance testing against Web sites, Web services, .NET, message buses, Java apps, and other heterogeneous technologies. As a certification platform for services teams from Microsoft and other industry partners, iTKO supports Federal initiatives for Net-centric application governance and quality.

MicroLink, LLC is a Microsoft Gold Certified Information Technology Partner. Based in Vienna, Virginia, MicroLink provides a full range of information technology services and products to both the public and commercial sectors. They focus on helping organizations meet their needs for teamwork and productivity by providing collaboration, business intelligence, and knowledge management solutions. Additionally, MicroLink was recently named Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year and Microsoft DoD Partner of the Year. MicroLink has vast experience delivering customized collaborative, geospatial, and business intelligence solutions that incorporate Microsoft technologies.

Neudesic has deep expertise in Service Oriented Architecture. Their technical personnel have long been at the forefront of distributed application technologies. Neuron—Neudesic's flagship Enterprise Service Bus product—is built on the latest Microsoft technologies and the Windows Communication Foundation. Neuron empowers organizations to be more event-driven in increasingly complex, heterogeneous environments. Organizations become more actively connected with their resources, people and services when provided with real time, event driven, messaging and process capabilities.

SOA Software provides comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench); a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager); and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations.

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