Most organizations have the need to share or pass documents and data across disparate systems. Before Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Collaborations were initiated, the process was cumbersome. One of the extremely beneficial outcomes of creating reusable components of code has been the development of SOA Collaboration which allows for the reuse of services across various products, projects and functional organizations.
How It Works
The ability to reuse code means it is accessible from a repository and therefore creates the capability to form collaborative business process modules. SOA reusable components can be recombined in many useful ways over many years. The Return on Investment (ROI) is high when an SOA is well-designed to meet industry-specific needs.
When SOA collaborations are used to implement an industry specific business process module, SOA Collaborations are formed from component repositories and allow information to move from one siloed application to another as a process flow.
Implementation
SOAs are easy to implement as process flows. The SOA implementation of a process flow can be managed utilizing desktop icons and business models that describe flow of information, calculations, sequence and governance rules.
Summary of the Application of SOAs
Tandel’s Collaborative environments have been developed for various industries and have the capability to manage, integrate and interface with various tools, software applications and data sets onto the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) where they are managed by well defined workflow governance rules and maintained in a master data set. The workflow and governance rules are usually industry specific. Tandel continues to leverage their acquired SOA experience and build business process modules based on our previous SOA Collaboration successes.