In today's commercial market, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been touted as the most practical architectural approach to increase business agility.  Gartner predicts that by 2008, at least 80% of all new development will be based on Service Oriented Architecture. So while the practical benefits of SOA are widely recognized, often overlooked are the models of the processes that SOA enables. 

SOA is an innovative emerging architectural approach that seeks to develop and deploy business applications as a set of reusable, composable ‘services’.  For all practical purposes today, SOA is considered an extension of Web Services (WS), taking the WS concept deeper into the enterprise by attempting to restructure a company’s entire applications portfolio into a set of SOA-based service components. These components can then be orchestrated into new applications at will, speeding and simplifying the overall solutions delivery process.

But if Service Oriented Architecture is relatively easy to describe, it is much more challenging to implement. The process of breaking down a large enterprise’s business functionality and existing systems into independently deployable service components is formidable. Fortunately, SOA practitioners can save time and effort by leveraging years of experience already embodied in proven model-driven approaches to specifying and developing software components.

Using a model-driven approach, enterprises can define business models without consideration for the underlying technical implementations.  These models can then be transformed, using well-defined rules, to the platform and implementation levels necessary for software development.  Each stage of this model transformation is carefully defined to ensure strict compliance with both the business policies and technical requirements of your organization.

With our unique combination of strategic consulting and targeted workshops and mentoring, Voyant can help your organization understand how best to apply model-driven techniques to systematically guide and accelerate your organization’s transition to SOA.

Contact Voyant today and learn why Model Driven SOA is rapidly becoming the most pragmatic, yet strategic, embodiment of IT for the next generation.