Development of information strategy planning based on SOA and cloud computing enterprise

Abstract: Enterprise Informatization Strategic Planning refers to the overall framework and guidance system for the development goal and direction of Enterprise Informatization, which is to meet the business demand and realize the strategic goal of enterprise, by the high-level leadership of the enterprise, the information technology expert and the information user representative according to the requirement of the enterprise overall strategy. Enterprise Informatization Strategic Planning is a strategic deployment of enterprise Informatization Construction, the ultimate goal is to promote the realization of enterprise strategic objectives, and to achieve a lower cost to produce higher benefits. Enterprise Informatization is the process that enterprises use modern information technology, through the development and utilization of information resources, to continuously improve the efficiency and level of production, operation, management and decision-making, and then to improve the business efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises, the core of which is to reduce costs and improve management level. Enterprise information Construction is a systematic project, its emergence and development is a gradual process, and the original property right structure, organization form, operation mode, benefit distribution and other factors are the basis and conditions. Therefore, to ensure that information construction conforms to the needs of enterprise development, it is necessary to plan and design the construction of information system from the strategic point of view.

The strategic planning of enterprise Informatization refers to the overall framework and guiding system for the development goal and direction of Enterprise Informatization, which is to meet the business demand and realize the strategic goal of enterprise, by the leaders of the enterprise, the information technology expert and the information user representative according to the requirement of the enterprise overall strategy. Enterprise Informatization Strategic Planning is a strategic deployment of enterprise Informatization Construction, the ultimate goal is to promote the realization of enterprise strategic objectives, and to achieve a lower cost to produce higher benefits.

China's economy is entering a transition period, from the past low-end processing manufacturing to the process management of service management through-train, in the new environment requires enterprises to have greater innovation, there is greater momentum for development. How to improve the efficiency of enterprises and enhance the value of enterprises is an important issue faced by enterprises. Enterprise Informatization strategy should focus on the realization of enterprise's long-term goal and management strategy, therefore, in the process of economic transformation, we should comprehensively consider the problems that arise in the process of informatization due to the change of internal and external environment: How to deal with the various challenges faced by enterprises, and how to analyze the internal and external environment accurately and comprehensively, To determine the business goals to meet, how to develop an excellent enterprise architecture to support business processes, how to adapt an enterprise architecture to changing business needs and information technology, and so on. After more than 10 years of information process, vertical integration of support sector-oriented business processes is rooted within the enterprise, but with business transitions, business processes begin to change, requiring increased collaboration between departments to enhance the effectiveness of the entire enterprise, meet customer needs and respond to external changes more quickly, This requires the various departments of the business through the vertical integration of the enterprise resources, at the same time with the expansion of enterprise scale, business processes increase, the original information platform can not support the future business needs, How to let the enterprise to meet the business explosion at a lower cost is the lack of information resources is another difficult problem that enterprise faces in the process of transformation. In order to adapt to the changes in business needs, for the enterprise to develop appropriate information strategy, the following chapters will be in the past enterprise information process encountered problems and corresponding countermeasures, and based on the existing results and information technology, proposed the integration of SOA and cloud computing Enterprise informatization strategy to set the direction, A fusion framework is proposed.

1 The development of enterprise Informatization Strategic Planning

As an integral part of enterprise strategy, informatization strategy must obey and serve the enterprise's overall strategy and long-term development goal. Enterprise's informatization planning is no longer a simple network structure problem, it has a strong overall planning behavior, including the software architecture, hardware architecture, network architecture design, equipment load, architecture security, the corresponding investment and other factors have a detailed and comprehensive consideration and planning. And finally provide a safe and reliable information technology support strategy for the development of enterprise business. First of all, this section begins with the problems caused by the lack of information strategy, analyzes a series of problems caused by lacking of information strategy planning, then sums up the essential factors to be considered in the strategic planning, and finally puts forward the whole idea of enterprise strategic planning.

1.1 problems caused by the lack of information strategy planning

Before, many enterprises in the country's information development and application into a different degree of dilemma, resulting in the enterprise's Informatization project is in the awkward situation of dilemma. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, but the main reason is the lack of scientific strategic planning of information. The performance can be summarized as follows.

A. Information system integration is not high: information sharing within the enterprise is low. The formation of a lot of information islands, information exchange difficulties, system integration and operation and maintenance of high cost, system repair work heavy.

B. Information system construction maturity is not high: in the information design, there is no corresponding indicator evaluation system. Only by strengthening the evaluation and control of the information construction efficiency can the enterprise be integrated and planned.

C. Information technology investment structure is unreasonable: in China's information construction process, most of the information investment is used in the purchase of hardware, software and services to invest less, resulting in inefficient hardware facilities.

D. The information system to the business support is insufficient: software development process will be the best software development process directly literally to the enterprise, resulting in the user system is very inconvenient and information system can not effectively implement the needs of enterprise development, the inefficient allocation of enterprise resources and optimization of the lack of information system functions can not be effectively used.

E. Duplication of information system modules: This is a frequent problem in the construction of enterprise information, the system or module can not be reused, resulting in a similar business process to repeat the development, resulting in a large number of enterprise information investment waste.

1.2 Practical exploration of planning

Enterprise Informatization is no longer an empty shell or face project, but a tool to promote enterprises to enhance competitiveness. Enterprise Informatization strategy is to ensure that enterprises can adopt appropriate, reasonable information technology to achieve the maximization of enterprise benefits. If a modern enterprise wants to succeed, it must develop a clear information strategy to support business innovation. In the development of enterprise informatization strategy, we should grasp information technology, information organization, enterprise culture, business process four aspects.

Information technology is the foundation of Enterprise Informatization, it includes information perception and recognition technology, information transmission technology, processing technology and the reality of information technology, the realization of these technologies with the help of hardware and software equipment; Information organization refers to how to select information and analyze information in the process of enterprise informatization. How to describe the information and how to store the information, information technology and information organization is the technical level, is the enterprise informatization realization Way. Enterprise culture is the core of an enterprise, belong to the enterprise "software metallurgy, if an enterprise wants to develop and grow, want to stand the forest of the world and not fall, must have its extraordinary corporate culture, only in the process of enterprise informatization, integration of the cultural elements of enterprises, enterprise information can promote the development of enterprises, improve the efficiency of enterprises. Business process refers to the enterprise in the process of operation, the description of the process, but also an embodiment of enterprise efficiency, only the enterprise business process innovation, can maximize the efficiency of the enterprise, so business process module is the most important in the process of enterprise informatization. Enterprise culture and business process belong to the second level of enterprise informatization and the most important manifestation of enterprise informatization. The highest level of enterprise informatization is the formulation of enterprise informatization strategy, it should consider not only the realization of the above four aspects, but also the process of enterprise informatization, how to reduce the cost of the enterprise, make the information system reliable and safe, and how to carry out risk control in the process of enterprise informatization. Figure 1 reveals the factors to be considered in the process of enterprise informatization, how to formulate the enterprise informatization strategy accordingly, and then implement is the focus of this paper, based on the research of various information architecture, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of SOA and cloud computing, and puts forward the information strategy based on SOA and cloud computing.

The advantages and limitations of 2SOA in Enterprise informatization

SOA (Service Oriented architecture) arises from the need for information integration metallurgy. An important idea of SOA is to enable enterprise applications to get rid of the constraints of technology-oriented solutions. SOA focuses more on information technology and business processes so that it can more accurately represent business models and better support business processes. Thus, it is easy to meet the needs of enterprise service change and development. The benefits of SOA can be summed up as: better and faster delivery of the business as a core service flow, rapid response capability, and business reusability. The SOA approach deals with functional aspects of objects, data, components, business processes, interfaces, etc. from the perspective of service providers and service consumers, at the same time, the security architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, service quality management and other common facilities are extracted to form a different level, for all the services are common. Therefore, the SOA architecture is well suited to the needs of enterprise's business innovation in the process of enterprise informatization, and it can also make the development business reusable and reduce the cost of the enterprise. But SOA still has some drawbacks in the process of enterprise, which is as follows:

A. The standards are still incomplete. Web services are the best way to implement SOA, but there are many immature aspects of Web services themselves. In addition to the relatively mature soap and WSDL protocols, standards for reliable messaging, secure Web services, web transactions, etc. are still to be perfected, both in terms of unified description, Discovery and integration, and common business languages.

B. The problem of granularity of service. As far as SOA architecture is concerned, "the problem of particle size in service metallurgy, to some extent, determines the flexibility and efficiency of the whole system, and finds a balance between flexibility and efficiency." The balance point needs to be tested by practice.

C. The quality of the service is not guaranteed. Service is flexible, how to automatically discover the source of the service? How to quickly assemble the service, how to generate the service and adjust the service with the quickest speed, how to guarantee the service quality and so on, these aspects still need to study further.

Fig. 1 schematic diagram of Enterprise informatization

3 The advantages and limitations of cloud computing in enterprise informatization

Cloud computing is a product of the development and integration of traditional computer technology and network technology such as Grid computing, distributed computing, parallel computing, utility computing, networked storage, virtualization, load balancing and so on. It aims to integrate a number of relatively low cost computing entities into a perfect system with powerful computing power through the network, and to distribute this powerful computing power through the business model to the end-user in the service way. One of the core concepts of cloud computing is to provide services to the user terminals at a lower cost through the powerful processing capability within the cloud, which in turn simplifies the user terminal into a simple input and can enjoy "the services provided by the cloud" on demand. Cloud computing is not a technology, but a complex of many technologies. The commonality of cloud computing patterns can be summed up as: Simple to use, super large, virtualization, high scalability, high reliability, extremely low service costs. The advantages of cloud computing can be summed up as:

A. Cloud computing can solve the enterprise in the information process from the technical aspects of the crisis, cloud computing is a combination of technology, at the same time, cloud computing is a carrier, it above the various services is the essence. Cloud computing platform is to integrate existing IT services, providing a download-free, installation-free, Plug and Play services, but also to provide users with customized personalized services.

B. Cloud computing can enable enterprises to reduce the purchase of hardware equipment and reduce IT operations maintenance costs, thereby reducing the cost of enterprise informatization, personalized, improve the degree of freedom. While significantly saving software costs, hardware, human and operational costs are not being saved.

C. Cloud computing solves the problem of large-scale parallel computing, data distribution storage, real-time data backup, high application integration and security and personalization application, so the enterprise can use it at any time, expand it at any time, and pay the cloud service by using.

Building Enterprise's informatization system through cloud computing way, can make its performance to achieve an unprecedented optimal state, the system will be the user of each transaction breakdown task, directional resolution and automatic scheduling of cloud computing platform in the server cluster of the common response to complete, so the fastest speed to provide customers with application services. The problem with cloud computing can be summed up as:

A. Cloud computing security problem is the enterprise informatization needs to consider the first question.

B. Network bandwidth constraints are the problems that enterprises need to pay attention to at present.

C. The ability to interact with different cloud services is now very weak.

4 Information strategy solutions based on SOA and cloud computing

4.1 Enterprise Information Fusion program SOA

It is mainly to solve the problem of how the software system developed by different suppliers can continue to work together in different historical periods, different technical standards, and also introduce the business process module to support the innovation of business process, so as to improve the efficiency of the enterprise. The advent of cloud computing is the growth of information and data levels, the demand for supporting business data and business processing has exploded, leading to a surge in energy consumption and demand for data center capacity, as well as the need for rapid information retrieval in massive amounts of data, and a reduction in maintenance costs for information construction. For today's Enterprise Informatization, SOA and cloud computing are well suited to the needs of enterprise informatization strategy. So this paper presents the following fusion scheme, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 schematic diagram of SOA and cloud computing fusion architecture

The structure in Figure 2 is to leverage the advantages of SOA and cloud computing to build an enterprise's information strategy. Cloud computing guarantees the use of infrastructure at a lower cost, ensuring that service levels are executed concurrently in an instance mode. SOA ensures that users can customize their business processes in accordance with their corporate culture when invoking services, so that information can promote the efficiency of enterprises. Cloud computing integrates standards-based commercial applications of business services based on SOA, including customer relationship management (CRM), marketing lead generation, product lifecycle management, and supply chain management. In order to reduce the cost of users on the basis of playing the role of information technology to promote the efficiency of enterprises.

4.2 Significance of the integration scheme

With the integration of SOA and cloud computing, can enable enterprises to: a. To establish adaptability in a changing environment, so as to develop operational business strategy; B. Through the continuous innovation ability, through the informatization, establishes the business competitive advantage; c. To maximize the productivity of resources and personnel; d. Optimize the industry and cost structure, Meet the requirements of strategic and market opportunities; E. Develop an executable and sustainable development plan. F. Building a flexible, agile IT infrastructure service-oriented, dynamic opening and adjustment; G. Improving business value-rapid market access, focus on service availability and quality; H. continuous optimization of operating costs and management costs; establish variable cost model to break the original fixed cost model; J. Protection of Green IT Implementation of the plan. Therefore, the key goal of it is to become a catalyst for business transformation and innovation and efficient operation.

Using cloud computing and SOA integration of information strategy, can ensure the full use of existing hardware resources and software resources, fully reduce the cost of enterprise informatization process. The addition of cloud computing can guarantee the quality of service in the process of enterprise informatization, because the service of cloud computing is based on SLA. and enterprises can innovate through business process innovation, thus greatly improve the efficiency of enterprises.

5 concluding remarks

Enterprise Informatization can enable enterprises to avoid the company's internal information is unclear, management information disorder leads to the enterprise production management is not standardized, the organization process is confused, can avoid because the enterprise scale becomes big, the management organization is increasing, the management level is too many, but leads to the information communication channel not to be smooth, thus the market reaction speed slows; Can avoid because the information level is low, cause the enterprise market information is not spirit, the forecast is not allowed, causes the enterprise to make the plan, the organization production, carries out the management and so on the blindness. Can avoid the enterprise operation in all aspects of digital management and information isolated island, leading to the inefficient operation of enterprise funds, in short, enterprise information is the oath in the necessary line. The development of information strategy can enable enterprises to improve efficiency while reducing duplication of construction, so as to reduce costs, to ensure that enterprises obtain market information fast, fast decision-making, fast production, quick settlement, quick feedback, so as to maximize efficiency. The development of information strategy can enable enterprises to keep pace with the times, so that enterprises in a reasonable and correct planning under construction, to avoid duplication of construction, but also more conducive to strengthening the internal communication of enterprises.

The emergence of SOA is consistent with the enterprise's desire for information system integration and business process reengineering, which can reduce the duplication of information systems and eliminate the isolated islands. The advent of cloud computing, in line with the requirements of enterprises to reduce costs, quality of service, while the advent of cloud computing can make enterprises easy to face as a result of scale expansion, business process increase brings a series of problems. and the integration of SOA information strategy can ensure that enterprises in the scale expansion, business process explosion, information system expansion, business process innovation and other aspects to provide a strong guarantee, so that the enterprise information construction at a lower cost to maximize the benefits.

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