Moving towards Service Oriented Architecture

Helping organizations achieve greater agility and interconnectivity

Oftentimes, traditional IT architectures have limited ability to  meet the new requirements of modern business which call for rapid change and fast consolidation of newly merged enterprises.

Improved business agility with SOA

You can turn to emerging frameworks such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to operate more effectively in a dynamic business environment and improve the alignment of IT with core business goals. The key benefits of using SOA include:

• Growth with your business volume
  • Add capacity as required, instead of making large up-front investments
  • Enables you to launch new products and services more quickly
• Greater business agility
• Faster response to business process and regulatory changes
  • Establishes a framework to modify technology in response to opportunities
• Smoother business consolidation
  • Mergers and  acquisitions
  • Major business unit reorganizations
  • Legacy system integration
• Lower costs
  • Extend  lifespan of existing technology investments
  • Replace inflexible  monolithic systems with more adaptable modular units to facilitate growth and added functionality
  • Scalable expansion and reusability of solution components

Our SOA Solutions Deliver Optimal Value

Dell Services has a highly-focused, deeply-experienced Center of Excellence (CoE) to architect, build, deploy, and maintain SOA solutions.

• Complete SOA solution lifecycle coverage
  • Visioning
  • Assessment and analysis
  • Architecture and governance model
  • Design and development
  • Testing and deployment
  • Operations
• Proof of concept demonstrations
• Training on SOA concepts
• Development of reusable components
• Consulting on all aspects of SOA solutions
  • Performance specifications and measure
  • Build/Buy assessment and decisions
• Auditing and review services

The Dell Services advantage

A technology team to support your vision and growth

• In-depth exposure to multiple application domains: We architect effective solutions quickly for you by leveraging our rich experience in multiple domains, including Healthcare, Government, Financial Services, Insurance, and Manufacturing.
• SOA reference architecture blueprints: You achieve more robust technology systems because we choose-and-use only industry accepted, highly-proven architecture models. 
• Capabilities in diverse technology stacks: We choose the best technology option for your needs and maintain a vendor-neutral position to deliver the best solution sets to meet individual client needs. We can also work effectively with your current technology platforms and standards, as needed.
• Expertise in EAI platforms and messaging products: A key element of SOA architectures is the communication between different applications, both within and outside your organization. Our experiences and capabilities using multiple ‘glue’ technologies helps us choose and implement the best options for your enterprise.
• Methodologies covering full development lifecycle: You can rely on us to conceptualize and implement your SOA solution from visionary planning to go-live stages, to long-term maintenance upgrades.
• Phased SOA implementation of strategies: By implementing your architecture solutions in manageable phases, we help you realize project benefits and reduce risk, even while the extended solution development is in progress.
• Solution accelerators in defined segments: Our tested industry-specific frameworks help reduce the costs and timelines of solution delivery.
• Repository of reusable components: We help you control the cost of solution development by repurposing proven tools and components.
• Alliances with key technology vendors: We build state-of-the-art solutions for you using a powerful network of leading technology providers that help us uncover and assimilate technology developments early in the process.

Before you take the plunge...

Even though new SOA approaches offer many up-front benefits, we can help you build-and-test a small pilot application using our SOA Lite framework. This controlled pilot allows you to test proof-of-concept benefits and see the results of SOA technology in a framework relevant to your business.