Service-Oriented Architecture Overview: Part 4)

Part 4: benefits of the service-oriented architecture

As mentioned above, enterprises are dealing with two problems: rapidly changing capabilities and reducing costs. To maintain competitiveness, enterprises must quickly adapt to internal factors (such as mergers and acquisitions) or external factors (such as competitiveness and customer requirements ). It requires economic and flexible IT infrastructure to support enterprises.

We can realize that adopting a service-oriented architecture will bring us several benefits and help us to succeed in today's turbulent business environment:

Use existing assets.

SOA provides an abstraction layer through which enterprises can continue to use its investment in it by encapsulating these existing assets into services that provide enterprise functions. Organizations can continue to get value from existing resources without having to build from scratch.

Ease of integration and management complexity.

In the service-oriented architecture, integration points are standards rather than implementation. This provides transparency and minimizes the impact of infrastructure and implementation changes. By providing service specifications for existing resources and assets built based on totally different systems, integration becomes easier to manage because complexity is isolated. This is even more important when more companies collaborate to provide value chains.

Faster response and market speed.

The ability to combine new services from existing services provides unique advantages for organizations that need to flexibly respond to demanding business requirements. By using existing components and services, you can reduce the time required to complete the software development lifecycle (including collection requirements, design, development, and testing. This allows organizations to quickly develop new business services, quickly respond to changes, and reduce time to market preparation.

Reduce costs and increase reuse.

By publishing business services in a loosely coupled manner, enterprises can easily use and combine services according to business requirements. This means the reduction of resource replicas, and the increase in the possibility of reuse and cost reduction.

To achieve

With SOA, enterprises can plan ahead and make full preparations for the future. SOA business processes are composed of a series of business services that can be created, modified, and managed more easily to meet the needs of different periods.

SOA provides flexibility and response capabilities, which are crucial for the survival and development of enterprises. However, the service-oriented architecture is by no means a panacea, and migrating to SOA is not an easy task. Please do not expect to migrate the entire enterprise system to a service-oriented architecture one night. We recommend that you migrate the appropriate part of the enterprise functions when business requirements appear or are exposed.