Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services

The typical application infrastructure is a complex mix of technologies that is difficult to create and costly to maintain. Often, business-critical applications are incapable of sharing data with one another, creating an exhaustive cycle of integration and development work for IT staff as new applications are added to your environment.

To address these development and integration challenges, many companies are beginning to adopt a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) — a flexible, standardized architecture that makes application elements reusable by packaging them as services and sharing those services across servers and platforms. Among SOA’s many benefits are its ability to make companies rapidly adaptable to business change, reduce costs and enable faster development and deployment — all significant competitive advantages in today’s marketplace. Yet, for many, SOA adoption has been hampered by an inability to identify the appropriate starting point and/or limited internal resources.

To help your organization realize the substantial benefits of the SOA architecture, experienced Agilysys consultants provide two key offerings:

• Assessment and Architecture Design Services – Together with your in-house staff, Agilysys consultants uncover your most pressing business needs, assess your existing IT environment and develop a customized SOA architecture plan. We help you identify and prioritize the functions and processes that are critical, reusable, and thus ideal candidates for becoming web services. 
  
  

• Implementation Services – Agilysys technicians have expertise in both the J2EE and .NET platforms and have a streamlined process for creating, integrating and interfacing web services wrappers to rapidly achieve your SOA goals.

By leveraging Agilysys’ SOA and web services expertise, you can more logically, rapidly and cost-effectively adopt an architecture that:

• Provides flexible and reusable components 

• Enables faster development and deployment cycles

• Reduces costs

• Increases staff productivity

• Improves your ability to quickly respond to business change