Today, Web Services and SOA is the most talked about technology within any large IT organization. IT Companies are struggling to provide Web Services platforms and technologies. Non-IT companies are getting their hands dirty and trying to see the ROI of SOA and Web Services in their industry.

A recent Gartner study said "Through 2008, 70 percent of IT organizations will fail to successfuly select and implement an SOA strategy on the first try (0.7 probability)". Our consulting approach will help you avoid becoming a part of this statistic.

I use a unique SOA methodology, nicknamed, Service Oriented Unified Process (SOUP) which is a hybrid of RUP and Extreme Programming (XP). I have also devised Service Oriented Architecture Maturity Model (SOAMM), that leverages the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and applies it to SOA development. Together, SOUP and SOAMM, form the basis of my consulting engagements, and set me up to deliver a successful SOA project.

Business Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture

• Efficiency: Shared services instead of disparate business processes; lowered maintenance costs.
• Responsiveness: Business agility, ability to respond quickly to new business opportunities.
• Adaptability: Systems can quickly evolve as the business needs change.

IT Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture

• Reduced Complexity: Standards based systems, made up of smaller chunks (Services).
• Increased Reuse: Services are built to reuse - 80% reuse of existing services, 20% new services.
• Time to Delivery: Implementations takes weeks instead of months or year.
• Integration: No Point to Point integrations, rather a use of a services layer, or Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

SOA Services

Examples of the types of services we offer include:

• SOA Strategy
  • Identify need for SOA in your company
  • ROI analysis of SOA
  • Document SOA in business terms
  • Strategic guidance and mentoring on SOA initiative
  • Authoring and training services around SOA implementation
    
    
• SOA Architecture
  • Develop an enterprise architecture with support for SOA
  • Identify technical and business Services
  • Development Framework for SOA
  • Methodologies and Process
  • Governance and support models
  • Vendor assessments for different SOA tools such as ESB, WS-M vendors etc
    
    
• SOA and Web Services Development and Deployment Support
  • Develop your application using Web Services and SOA standards
  • Recommend Web Services platform
  • Migrate existing applications to support SOA
  • Deploy an enterprise-wide SOA solution
  • Consulting around which WS-* standards to adopt, when and how
    
    
• EAI using SOA and Web Services
  • Recommend EAI strategy using Web Services and SOA
  • Develop, deploy and support a SOA Integration solution
    

We can provide SOA solutions on different leading Web Services platforms using Java, J2EE and .NET, such as

• BEA Weblogic / AquaLogic
• IBM Websphere
• JBoss and Tomcat
• .NET