SOA. For the Next Generation Business Application.

Companies today are moving their attention towards Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to embark upon the complexity of the application and IT and develop services for the business that are truly reusable, flexible, granular, modular, interoperable and can be customized for any type of IT infrastructure. This requires you to be ready to take on all the technology challenges thrown at you, work under inexorable pressure to deliver the application and keep leveraging your skills at the same time.

At MiddlewareWorks, we can help you succeed in all your SOA endeavors, as we have the right background, expertise and infrastructure. We conduct in-depth research in UI architectures, development tools, and prototyping in technologies; all the while keeping a tab on the key trends to help you build, deploy, and manage your SOA.

We also understand that each business has different needs, and help align your SOA initiatives with your organization's business requirements - at a speed that suits you. Towards this, we help you define SOA principles and best practices that guide planning, development, integration and management of your application infrastructures. We also design and develop service-oriented practices, and tools to enable rapid assembly, with lesser deployment time, and minimal risk of failure.

A few of the top business benefits that you get with SOA are listed below:

• Faster deployment of applications as services with SOA
• Elimination of infrastructure duplication while publishing functionality and data as services across the enterprise.
• Business divisions are linked in real-time, enabling seamless and coordinated customer service all along the chain.
• The SOA switch with integration via standards-based Web services is not expensive and is future-proof.
• Standards mean neither you nor your partners are locked in by proprietary technologies.

ESB. Integrating Your Application.

One of the biggest challenges being faced by enterprises today is integrating their application. And building an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is almost certainly the fastest and most economical way to overcome this problem.

The Enterprise Service Bus (or ESB) is basically a software infrastructure at the intersection of SOA, application integration, and business process modeling that simplifies the integration and flexible reuse of business components using a service-oriented architecture. An ESB supports the goals of service orientation by supporting routing, several integration styles, service interaction, graphical data mapping and transformation, and also control services and their interactions.

At Middlewareworks, we can help you gain insight on ESBs, and design and create solid ESB service-oriented architecture frameworks. The benefits of ESBs are many, and some of them are:

• The ability to integrate business applications and processes quickly and easily and respond to business challenges.
• As ESBs also (like SOA) use industry standards for most of the services they provide and facilitate cross-platform interoperability, it becomes the most logical choice for an enterprise wanting to implement SOA.
• Increases flexibility to change complex system behavior by minimizing the hidden dependencies among applications, services and middleware in a distributed environment.
• Can be deployed incrementally, thereby increasing the speed at which the service is being delivered to clients. This also helps reduce the risk of deploying complex applications, and reduces the cycle time and operating expenses.