SOA Services and Solutions

For many CIOs, the primary trend today revolves around a continuing and increasing business demand for IT agility, to match the quick pace of business. In an age where business decisions are made in minutes and hours rather than days and weeks, CIOs find themselves looking for ways to make sure that information is available rapidly and comprehensively.

"Businesses are calling for more flexible responses, and an IT infrastructure that will allow IT to respond more quickly to changing business requirements and needs," said Andrew Bartels, a research analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. Businesses need to be more nimble and react more quickly, and CIOs will be looking for technologies that allow IT to do that. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides solutions to all these challenges.

SOA technologies allow companies to build a foundation for next-generation solutions and help them move from their present focus on improving business processes to optimizing the business results, from being reactive to being proactive.

Benefits of Animato's SOA solution

• Reduction of maintenance costs from 80% to about 65% of the total IT budget
• Intra- and inter-enterprise reuse and process interoperability
• Creation of synergistic links between business and IT architecture by using SOA BPM capabilities
• Creation of agile and responsive business processes
• Design of a unique platform to architect and develop flexible business processes from SOA and Web 2.0 related solutions
• Compatibility with legacy and third party vendors using SOA solutions
• Flexibility to change and manage business services on the fly
• Creation of intuitive business solutions
• Reduction of integration challenges
• Coexistence of best-of-breed solutions and tools

SOA Solutions and Services (PDF)

• Assessments and Readiness Reviews
• SOA Strategy, Alignment and Roadmap
• Project Prototyping
• SOA Jump-start programs
• SOA Integration Services & Middleware Solutions