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SOA infrastructure solution from IBM

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The goal

Meet the SOA infrastructure challenge

A constantly changing, competitive marketplace. Overly complex IT infrastructures. Your business is ready to move to a service oriented architecture (SOA), but there are many challenges to overcome. The SOA infrastructure solution from IBM can help you improve IT flexibility and performance as you organize business tasks as a set of reusable services or elements.

The advantage

Why IBM for SOA?

IBM understands service orientated architecture and can help it work effectively in your organization by delivering IT transformation services, software and hardware that blend business knowledge and technology innovation. IBM has:

A family of SOA products and services proven in more than 1,000 implementations, and delivered by experienced consultants, architects and IT consultants.
More than US$1B per year invested in SOA, and more than 300 SOA-related patents.
Recognition by leading analysts as a "Leader" in eight SOA-relevant categories.

While others may talk about their SOA strategies, we have the experience and expertise to both make SOA a reality today, and help ensure your larger IT infrastructure is aligned and able to successfully support it.

The benefits

Move to a service oriented approach

The SOA infrastructure solution from IBM can:

Help ensure SOA readiness and effective, efficient SOA management.
Provide business flexibility to enable rapid changes.
Allow the reuse of IT assets while establishing a more flexible and robust infrastructure.
Reduce complexity by organizing your IT infrastructure into a set of services.
Accelerate the changes to services or underlying capabilities with minimal disruption.
Improve processes and functions to increase delivery and market impact.

The approach

Underlying systems that complement business

IBM has delivered more than a thousand successful IT infrastructure integration and SOA engagements, including a large U.S. insurance company based in the Midwest. The company's existing Web-based infrastructure was creating scalability issues as the business grew. They wanted a simplified IT infrastructure that was SOA-ready and could meet their expanding needs.

The company contracted IBM to architect, design and build a new, flexible and agile IT infrastructure. We provided the architecture, SOA infrastructure and long-term vision that addressed their business needs, provided platform choice and facilitated software reuse as they adopted SOA—delivering the simplified IT infrastructure they requested and resulting in an improved return on investment.

The financial advantage

Reduce costs, drive revenue

Make the most of your IT investments and extend the capabilities of existing applications and systems to drive business value. Our solution can help accelerate and increase a return on your SOA investments.

Increase responsiveness by ensuring SOA readiness.
Reduce cost and time to value by speeding SOA deployment.
Enhance productivity by improving SOA management.

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