Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Is Your Organization Sufficiently Nimble?
In a fiercely competitive world of business, an ability of businesses to adapt to rapidly changing market demands to deliver cutting edge products to its customers is a single most critical success factor in ensuring a competitive edge and achieving strategic goals.  Quite often; this is a sole driving reason for organizations to move towards SOA

The Challenge
In the quest for adapting to SOA concepts and supporting technologies, the biggest challenge organizations face is in truly understanding how SOA can benefit 'their' business. Understanding generic SOA concepts is not enough.  Understanding how to apply the concepts to your organization’s specific needs is vital.  Aligning the applied Enterprise SOA concepts with current business plans and the IT strategic roadmap is equally critical in making SOA initiatives successful and achieving a positive Return on Investment.   


The Solution
Unissant stands ready to ensure that your SOA initiatives are effectively aligned with your business strategy and that your investment in SOA results in a positive return.  We have successfully guided other organizations through this process, let us do it for you too.

Why Unissant?
Unissant offers a unique set of services that allows organizations to assess their current IT infrastructure and architecture from a SOA perspective.  Unissant's SOA professionals are industry experts across diverse business domains and technology providers in the SOA space.  With thorough understanding of SOA concepts and supporting technologies coupled with strong business domain knowledge, Unissant is an ideal partner in your quest to become a successful SOA organization.  Our SOA services are summarized below:

SOA Preparedness & Maturity Analysis
Before embarking on a SOA adoption path, it is extremely critical to understand the current state of your Enterprise to be able to determine what steps are needed. Our SOA Preparedness Analysis service is aimed at providing measured evaluation of the current standing of an organization on a SOA scale using custom  metrics specific to a given business.  These matrices form the backbone of the SOA Maturity Analysis service, providing effectiveness indicators throughout the SOA transformation lifecycle.  In addition to providing matrices, this services also provides strategic recommendations for advancing SOA at your organization.

SOA Breakthrough
 SOA Breakthrough service aims at assisting organizations in selecting the right initiatives that will provide high business impact,  a faster implementation, and maximize your IT investments and infrastructure.  Also part of this offering is a recommended approach to assess the effectiveness of SOA once the implementation is complete.

SOA Enterprise Architecture
SOA Enterprise Architecture service offers a complete SOA Architecture Blueprint by understanding the key business and strategic goals, understanding the current state of enterprise infrastructure and resources, and the strategic roadmap for SOA adoption.  The Architecture Blueprint includes recommendations on technologies and architecture patterns, analysis of the most suited tools available to implement and support the proposed SOA Architecture in an effective manner and a strategic plan to ensure extensibility and agile infrastructure.

SOA Best Practices &  Recommendations
A critical aspect of SOA is ensuring maximum re-use and interoperability, along with extensibility of the initiatives. Standards and design patterns play a critical role in this aspect of any SOA initiative.  This service is aimed at providing our customers with a wealth of knowledge and recommendations on standards and best practices to ensure the SOA integration is extensible, secure and loosely coupled to ensure agility and ability to adapt to future advances in technology.

SOA  Enterprise Integration 
Enterprise Integration service provides high quality consulting services to implement SOA initiatives in a timely manner.  Our consultants are experienced with all leading middleware, messaging, workflow, adapter, and other technology offerings in the SOA space to provide a team that will hit the ground running.  Our team of expert professionals provides SOA implementation, training and testing services to make your SOA initiative a success.

SOA Life Cycle Management & Governance
Our SOA Life Cycle Governance service assists businesses to leverage technology to make their processes more efficient, respond to changes needed by the organization and give end-users the right tools to do their work. In order to be successful with SOA you need to have the correct foundation in place.  With an effective SOA Governance solution, you have all of the necessary building blocks for your SOA in one place, with clear processes and responsibilities to develop your SOA.  Effective SOA Governance will enable you to govern the entire SOA lifecycle, gain full visibility of all implemented Services and SOA artifacts from one central location, and avoid chaotic growth via effective management and control.

SOA Preparedness & Maturity Analysis
Before embarking on SOA adoption path, it is extremely critical to understand the current state of Enterprise to be able to determine what steps are needed to advance further in SOA scale. SOA Preparedness Analysis service is aimed at assisting in providing measured evaluation of the current standing of an organization on SOA scale using custom set of metrics specific to a given business.  These matrices form a back bone of the SOA Maturity Analysis service, which measures the effectiveness of the SOA initiative upon completion of the implementation.  In addition to providing matrices, these services also provides recommendations on strategic approach to advance on the SOA scale, which; again is custom developed for a business taking into consideration the business' strategic goals and objectives.

SOA Breakthrough
When it comes to SOA, it is important to choose right initiatives for adapting to SOA, to ensure that the SOA initiatives are aligned with business strategy and deliver strategic objectives and high business value for the investment in technology and infrastructure resources.  SOA Breakthrough service aims at assisting organizations in selecting right initiatives, which provide high business impact and a faster implementation to maximize the IT investments and infrastructure.  Also part of this offering is a recommended approach to assess the effectiveness of SOA once the implementation is complete.

SOA Enterprise Architecture
SOA Enterprise Architect service offers a complete SOA Architecture Blueprint by understanding the key business and strategic goals, understanding the current state of enterprise infrastructure and resources, and the strategic roadmap for SOA adoption.  The Architecture Blueprint includes recommendations on technologies and architecture patterns, analysis of the most suited tools available to implement and support the proposed SOA Architecture in effective manner and a strategic plan to ensure extensibility and agile infrastructure.

SOA Best Practices &  Recommendations
Critical aspect of SOA is ensuring maximum re-use and interoperability, along with extensibility of the initiatives. Standards and design patterns play a critical role in this aspect of any SOA initiative.  This service is aimed at providing our customers with a wealth of knowledge and recommendations on standards and best practices to ensure the SOA integration is extensible, secure and loosely coupled to ensure agility and ability to adapt to future advances in technology.

SOA  Enterprise Integration 
Enterprise Integration service provides high quality consulting services to implement SOA initiatives in a timely manner.  Our consultants are experienced with all leading technology offerings in the SOA space to provide a team that can hit the ground running instantly.  Our team of expert professionals provides SOA implementation, training and testing services to make your SOA initiative a success.

SOA Life Cycle Management & Governance
Our SOA Life Cycle Governance service assists businesses to leverage technology to make their processes more efficient, respond to changes needed by the organization and give end-users the right tools to do their work. In order to be successful with SOA you need to have the correct foundation in place.  With an effective SOA Governance solution, you have all of the necessary building blocks for your SOA in one place, with clear processes and responsibilities to develop your SOA.  Effective SOA Governance will enable you to govern the entire SOA lifecycle, gain full visibility of all SOA artifacts from one central location and avoid chaotic growth via effective manage and control.