Business Services and SOA

Insights Library
- iPerspective™Power Point PresentationPower Point Presentation offering an overview of Rolta's iPerspecitve software
- SOA Service Power Point PresentationPower Point Presentation offering an overview of Rolta's SOA Services
- iPerspective™ OverviewPDF on how iPerspective™ rapidly creates secure access to data throughout your enterprise without requiring new development skills and the many other benefits of iPerspective™
- SOA Bootcamp OverviewPDF on corporate-wide understanding of success through Service Oriented Architecture and benefits available with SOA Bootcamp
- SOA Jumpstart OverviewPDF on gaining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) competencies through guided value delivery and the benefits of SOA Jumpstart
- SOA TodayPDF overview on helping you grow your business success through SOA Today and its many benefits
- Essential Services for EngineeringWhite Paper on essential services for engineering featuring iPerspective™ and SOA Today
- SOA-enabled Clouds: Enabling Global Business Services UtilitiesWeb Briefing on the concept of cloud computing, including the most pressing concerns of today's IT managers and CIOs, how to overcome these concerns, potential benefits and leading practices for adopting the architecture and integrating data using SOA
- SOA-enabled Clouds: Enabling Global Business Services Utilities OverviewAccompanying collateral piece to SOA-enabled Clouds: Enabling Global Business Services Utilities Web Briefing
- Managing Risk through Secure Business Asset SharingWeb Briefing on critical SOA security considerations, leading best practices for secure business asset sharing and an iterative approach to SOA adoption that reduces your overall deployment risk and ensures rapid ROI
- Managing Risk through Secure Business Asset Sharing OverviewAccompanying collateral piece to Managing Risk through Secure Business Asset Sharing Web Briefing
- Dispelling SOA Myths with Fast and Frequent ROIWeb Briefing on Rolta's agile and iterative approach to SOA implementation approach, how it can be the critical differentiator between success and failure and why it's critical to keep SOA "people- focused"
- Dispelling SOA Myths with Fast and Frequent ROI OverviewAccompanying collateral piece to Dispelling SOA Myths with Fast and Frequent ROI Web Briefing
- Recession proof Your Business with SOAWeb Briefing on why historic SOA implementations have failed, how you can benefit from innovative software that fundamentally transforms the complexity of implementing SOA to an "instant" task and how an agile, iterative approach can deliver rapid ROI for your business and ultimately lower total cost of ownership
- Recession proof Your Business with SOA OverviewAccompanying collateral piece to Recession-proof Your Business with SOA Web Briefing
- The Path to SOA Using Web ServicesWeb Briefing on a tool that will simplify the creation of Web Services without learning a new language or any coding what so ever
- Data Accessibility and Agility: Consuming Web Services with ApExWeb Briefing on how you can consume services using ApEx, including how to create and register your services manually or using our iPerspective™ technology and consuming your services in ApEx
- Scaling Oracle's Application Express (ApEx)Web Briefing on how you can build applications using ApEx while dispelling the concerns of those who do not believe that ApEx can be used to build large applications
- Service Oriented Architecture - Insight into the Business of Reusing your AssetsWeb Briefing on the current culture in Service Oriented Architecture and demonstration of a tool to help automate much of this process for you
- The Value Proposition Behind iPerspective™Web Briefing on how iPerspective™ will rapidly move your organization into a full-fledged service-oriented architecture using what you've already built and the many benefits of SOA
- What is SOA and Why Should I Care?Podcast addressing the questions what is SOA? Why is it important? Who is using SOA? How does and organization get started with SOA? How is SOA different from other solutions? How will people use SOA in the future?
- How are People Using SOA Today?Podcast addressing the questions what is SOA? Why is it important? Who is using SOA? How does and organization get started with SOA? How is SOA different from other solutions? How will people use SOA in the future?
- Who Uses SOA and Why?Podcast addressing the questions what is SOA? Why is it important? Who is using SOA? How does and organization get started with SOA? How is SOA different from other solutions? How will people use SOA in the future?

Executive View

Top Level Objectives

Challenges in businesses today are plentiful. One of the largest issues an organization faces is making correct decisions based upon information they are provided. Most of the opportunity lies within gaining the right information at the right time because Corporate decisions are based on quality and reliable data and successful communication between business executives and the IT division. However, what happens when this information is incorrect or outdated? There is no way for an organization to stay competitive in this market without reliable sources and many times these are hard to find.

Rolta has found a way to help grow your business and increase communication through SOA Today. This service provides your organization training, education and services that assess and integrate your enterprise systems through rapid SOA approach and enhance your business success. More specifically, SOA Today will provide your company with a consolidated view of information by integrating data spread across disparate systems and making it accessible in real-time.

Rolta offers a unique combination of technical excellence and business savvy forged over more than 20 years. SOA Today leverages these capabilities to address your SOA needs with a solid foundation of services and software. SOA Today can help you grow your business success leveraging SOA. We partner with you every step of the process, and through our revolutionary software, can facilitate on-the-fly changes businesses demand that most SOA solutions can't accommodate. With SOA today, you enjoy the benefit of SOA faster and with less risk.

Solution - Innovation

SOA promises great business improvements - agility, IT efficiency and optimized use of existing data assets. Yet traditional SOA solutions take too long to deliver the value promised. By the time the solutions come to fruition, business needs have changed, requiring a whole new development cycle. SOA Today is designed to address these traditional SOA issues.

SOA Today provides information systems that expose enterprise assets as configurable actors within a dynamic business process. It will enable publication of consistent, secure and controlled data sources as services to authorized users and will synchronize the goals of the board room and server room bringing business and IT closer together. The traditional approach to implementing SOA is a waterfall approach. It starts by defining all your business processes, then defining your governance policies and then tries to implement the technology stack. The results yield a very cumbersome SOA which can take one to three years before any return on investment is seen.

With SOA Today, Rolta utilizes an agile approach to deliver on the SOA promise with significantly less risk and a much faster return on investment. SOA web services can be created and operational in one to three weeks. We will work closely with you to determine your business requirements and build services rapidly around these needs. As a result, you will be utilizing SOA within weeks; see ROI in one to three months and be more responsive to the needs of your business. All of this can be accomplished through our agile framework.

Advantage - Insight

Through SOA Today, your business will learn how to utilize SOA to provide real time results by leveraging your organization's current assets and skill-sets. Our incremental and agile approach enables close customer interaction and quicker, more accurate solutions based on real-time customer feedback. When investing in SOA Today, your company will learn the importance of using SOA to leverage existing investments in technology by lowering costs on acquisitions and maintenance of current systems. It will provide current information which you can use to quickly meet your customers demands. The business functionality will align closer to the needs of different business units. Finally SOA Today can demonstrate how to reduce reliance on expensive (time and money) custom development.

Benefit - Impact

New business capabilities and cost reduction are two examples of SOA promises that can be met with our SOA Today methodology. Additional examples include:

Respond faster and more accurately to customers’ needs and new technologies
Increase operational effectiveness in areas ranging from product development, sales and supplier interactions
Improve operational effectiveness in areas ranging from product development to sales and supplier interaction.
Continue using existing data sources and applications without replacing the underlying data sources or applications

SOA Today delivers:

Shorter time-to-solution - SOA Today delivers value from SOA within the first few weeks of delivery, contrasted with the months and years it takes traditional, tops-down SOA approaches.
Simple approach - SOA Today maximizes leverage of your organization’s current assets and skill-sets. Our incremental and agile approach enables close customer interaction and quicker, more accurate solutions based on real-time customer feedback.
Built-in precision tuning - The agile approach used in implementing your SOA solutions can be used to continuously keep up with and improve your business technology.
Fixed Price and Timeline - SOA Today is scoped to meet your business needs within a fixed timeline and cost.

Management View

Business Objectives

Attaining the goals promised by SOA has been elusive because of costs and the level of technical expertise required. SOA Today has great opportunity because it breaks through these major constraints. SOA Today starts with education. We teach your team the best ways to approach SOA and the advantages they can achieve. We help you to understand the needs of your business users - as well as empower you to be agile and adaptable - so that your solutions will continue to provide business value. The SOA Today methodology uses web services to provide complete, real-time access to data and related business logic. Our tools support structured or unstructured data, regardless of location inside or outside of firewalls. Our solutions are available without the need for new programming skills or recoding of existing data source assets.

With SOA Today, your company can not only learn how SOA can improve your business processes but it also provides the basic understanding of how SOA works. Once that foundation is built, our consultants will work with company to assess its business needs and create a roadmap for its success. By the time your company has completed SOA Today, your company will have implemented various pilot projects that demonstrate immediate value and illustrate your plan for success through SOA.

Solution

The SOA Today offering is based upon the following framework:

Requirements Workshop - Reviewing the organization, scoping the project and confirming our understanding.
SOA Bootcamp -An educational day provided TUSC experts to all SOA stakeholders. This bootcamp focuses on the latest SOA principles, practices and success factors, as well as SOA fundamentals.
SOA Visioning - This is a comprehensive roadmap built around your business and technical requirements.
SOA Jumpstart - Creating and implementing pilot projects that demonstrate immediate value and illustrate success.

All these aspects of SOA Today provide your business with services that are catered toward your individual business needs and that provide real return on investment within weeks instead of years.

Approach

Through the workshop, education and assessment your company will understand how to best utilize SOA to align its business objects through the real time data supplied through these services. From here, our expert consultants will then work with you on creating a proof of concept, provide a user introduction and adoption strategy and then help you create an architecture and design. Then, utilizing our rapid prototyping and application development product, iPerspective™, we combine the speed and reliability of a pre-built software tool with the expert implementation skills of experienced SOA consultants. We can deliver a pilot project within your environment, usually within days, to demonstrate the power and simplicity of SOA-based solutions. This proof of concept empowers you for SOA success. Our full suite of SOA services are designed to grow with your organization through other SOA offerings.

Business Value

SOA Today gives your business the technical edge to compete in this challenging environment. By the end of this training and implementation, your SOA stakeholders will:

Gain experience building, deploying and consuming web services
the web services to simple integration projects
Understand Service adoption and set business rules
Build a plan to apply Services across the business from the top down
Layer BPEL and BPM as needed
Look at BAM, BI analytics to baseline, improve, measure and report on processes
Develop rapid prototyping to see results right away… Build (create and change services to expose data processes), Try (ingrate into simple display tools) and Revise (Show the user and get immediate feedback)

Technical View

Technical Issues

SOA has been a challenging area for IT organizations. Historically, IT organizations have been slow to deliver and develop systems that meet the requirements of business. The difficulty of IT development has lead to huge disconnects between requirements and fielded solutions. Organizations are confused on how to get started with SOA. Product vendors are telling them to buy SKU’s to get started and consulting firms are telling them they need to model all their business processes before they can build services in their SOA environment.

Rolta takes a unique view that is a hybrid of the 2 industry views-we believe sound architecture and rapid implementation tools are the best fit for starting an SOA Journey. We believe customers can get their first services developed without having to invest in a complete product stack, as well as not having to take antiquated approaches that require businesses to wait for complete Business Process Model. Our approach focuses on unique software, such as iPerspective™, that is industrial strength, yet lightweight so customers don’t have to invest in a complete, heavy stack of products that is expensive, inflexible and requires many highly skilled technical resources to implement. Our approach also focuses on architecture, but developing it in an incremental fashion following Agile approaches. This way we can focus on rapid results and not constrained to a Waterfall-type of Big Bang to occur in 2 years.

Rolta’s Agile Methodology will allow IT and businesses to align closer together to ensure the system meets the functional and non-functional requirements of the business team. Specifically, the SOA Bootcamp is focused on educating attendees on the fundamental principles of SOA. The curriculum is designed for business teams, IT Directors and executives alike. The workshop covers principles, leading practices, business cases and real world examples and a bi-directional dialogue workshop.

Solution Components

Rolta’s solution includes:

iPerspective™ software
SOA Today suite of services

Implementation

Leveraging pre-built templates, practices and principles, Rolta implementations follow the Agile approach, more specifically SCRUM-based. The SOA framework in the SOA Today solution includes a Requirements Workshop to document the business problem and our specifications for rapid delivery. Our BootCamp is devised to educate all stakeholders from lines of business and IT alike. Our Visioning increment helps us develop a SOA Roadmap for your success. We assess your current state and provide actionable recommendations for ensuring a risk adverse environment.

How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?

Rolta will provide services that range from advisory, to architectural to technical and innovative. Our SOA practice, starting with SOA Today is particularly effective in addressing the following needs: SOA governance, legacy migration, Business Process Management (BPEL/BPM), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Business Intelligence (BI), SOA-based MIS/GIS integration, SaaS and Cloud enablement for SOA, green data architecture design and delivery, best practices and standards integration. What makes Rolta's solutions unique is the rapid ability to create Web Services through the iPerspective™ tool which can in turn be used to quickly generate business value.