The vast majority of industry experts predict that the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow rapidly over the coming year. But what is SOA?
In essence, SOA is an effective way in which an organisation can integrate not only its diverse applications suite, but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. For many academic organisations, their IT environment has evolved over time, with systems and applications aligned to business operations, such finance or library, existing in isolation of one another. The need to manage users, whether they are students or employees, effectively across the IT environment is a challenge – and SOA presents a great opportunity.
An SOA provides a usable, scalable and open platform for developing, executing and managing end-to-end integrated business processes as composite applications. This allows you to make better use of the IT systems already in place, while dramatically improving your operations as a result of the more streamlined, flexible and adaptable IT environment. For academic organisations, SOA provides a way to improve competitiveness and effectiveness.
Esteem is already working with a number of organisations to help them develop an SOA. If you would like to find out how we can help you, just click here to contact us.
