Bea SOA entry

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• Overview
• Bea and SOA
• Meet today's business challenges
• Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture
• It benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture
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Overview Bea and SOA

To gain a competitive advantage, enterprises must enable technology to effectively serve their business goals. Bea is committed to promoting the compatibility of the entire application infrastructure through open standards and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), helping enterprises quickly realize it value.

SOA is an IT strategy that orchestrates distributed functions in enterprise applications into standard services with interoperability. Organizations can quickly combine and reuse these services to meet business needs.

SOA organizes enterprise it around services (rather than applications) and has the following important advantages:

1. Improve business and IT efficiency, agility, and delivery speed.
2. It enables faster delivery of services that are closer to business requirements.
3. Improve the service response level and improve the user experience.
4. Hides the underlying technical complexity of the IT environment.

That is to say, SOA accelerates application development and allows delivery of new services and improved services in a more reliable manner.

Now, some organizations have adopted a service-oriented environment based on Bea's basic software. They received significant results, including increased revenue, increased customer satisfaction, reduced operating costs, and increased returns for existing technology investments.

BEA has developed a vision and roadmap that uses liquid computingtm to simplify enterprise computing and improve business response capabilities.

Meet today's business challenges

Your business pace is faster than ever before. As customers, partners, and employees expect higher quality services-24 × 7 services-today's enterprise systems are hard to keep up with the times. The first is the IT staff. The tasks assigned to them are:

Improve operational efficiency:To make existing investment more productive, it also means to improve business management methods and implement comprehensive business processes. In particular, it maintains and expands new strategic development achievements, including compressing budgets and expenses, reducing ongoing maintenance costs, and achieving "get twice the result with half the effort" in every field of actual business ".

Improve customer response:It is necessary to respond quickly to investors who support business. Whether they are internal or external customers of the enterprise, they have more or less information needs for the IT system, this includes the collection and use of information throughout the entire business process, and information wherever it is located must be easily obtained by those who need it.

Improve business flexibility:It is necessary to quickly adapt to the business, including internal and external contact points, because the business will continue to change, we should avoid the need to develop new applications and greatly change the original infrastructure due to changes in business requirements.

With so many important tasks at hand, how can it people meet the increasing demands to quickly realize it value? The answer is to develop and deploy a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA ). The SOA method can better align it with business objectives, so that it organizations can efficiently reuse assets and create value for enterprises more quickly, so as to more easily respond to changing business needs.

Why SOA?
A more advanced application development architecture oriented to Service Architecture (SOA) allows it to focus more on business processes rather than the underlying IT infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage.

SOA is intended for enterprises that need to use information technology to solve key business problems (including enterprises that want to reduce Redundant Architecture and create public business interfaces across customer and employee systems; enterprises that require services that provide personalized information to users based on roles and workflows. organizations that want to achieve cross-region sales, upgrade sales, and improve customer service through access to mobile devices through the Internet are of great value.

Enterprises that adopt a service-driven approach experience the following business and it benefits:

Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture

• Efficiency:Transform business processes from "chimney"-like, repetitive processes to utilization and shared service applications with low maintenance costs.
• Response:Quickly adapt to and deliver key business services to meet market needs and provide higher-level services for customers, employees and partners.
• Adaptability:More efficient transfer-in and transfer-out makes the entire business more complex and less difficult, saving time and money.

It benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture

• Complexity Reduction:Based on the standard compatibility, it reduces complexity compared with point-to-point integration.
• Increased reuse:By reusing the previously developed and deployed shared services, you can achieve more effective application/project development and delivery.
• Legacy integration:Legacy applications used as reusable services reduce maintenance and integration costs.
   

  Today's service-driven enterprises are experiencing high development efficiency, high service reliability, and high service quality to maximize the benefits of business opportunities.

• Business strategy and process-- Does the current business and IT strategy contain a framework suitable for SOA? Only when the business and IT strategies are completely consistent can enterprises discover problems and implement solutions in a consistent manner.
• Architecture --To deliver services quickly and dynamically, enterprises must develop an architecture that can assemble components and services. This architecture will focus on reusability and availability to avoid isolated silos of stovepipe applications and IT resources.
• Costs and Benefits-- After SOA is implemented, it response speed will increase, maintenance costs will be significantly reduced, and a convincing cost-benefit analysis will be provided.
• Projects and Applications-- SOA enables you to build applications in a new way in a more powerful and flexible programming model. Organizations need to identify which existing applications should be integrated into the SOA architecture.
• Component-- As an architecture and a programming model, SOA is a method for building software. Enterprises need to identify which modules (including coding, services, applications and components) should be used and reused when implementing SOA ).
• Organization and management-- For a new service-oriented IT organization, it should define its roles and responsibilities, optimize the skill set, and organize an effective design reuse factory ), helps define management modes and ultimately ensures the customer's autonomy in management.