A constantly evolving competitive marketplace. Growing customer demands for better products and support services. Increasingly complex IT infrastructures. It's time for your company to identify opportunities for strategic differentiation through business model innovation. Service oriented architecture (SOA) can help your company bring together the capabilities your business needs to address specific industry challenges in new and different ways.
Get from there to here with IBM SOA Industry Roadmaps
To help get you started, IBM is announcing industry specific roadmaps to guide your organisation from business concept to business value with SOA best practices and proven methods tailored to your industry. IBM SOA Industry Roadmaps include a business blueprint to establish your business direction, and the supplies you need to get there. These roadmaps are based on long-term industry outlooks and new IBM Business Blueprints that enable organisations to better align business and IT.
Begin with a blueprint for success
Based on these blueprints, the roadmaps begin with thought leadership pieces to help outline industry challenges and the SOA benefits offered to those industries. These thought leadership papers drill into specific business scenarios, describing how processes are typically executed and how they will evolve in the future with SOA. Each thought leadership paper also recommends targeted SOA entry points to drive immediate business benefits.
Make the most of a common framework
After providing the blueprint, IBM SOA Industry Roadmaps offer the tools, a framework, with specific industry content to support your SOA solution. IBM SOA Industry Frameworks contain packaged, interrelated, reconfigurable groups of optional software modules called business services designed to perform tasks tailored to your industry's users, policies and methods. The framework also includes business partner content built on a common foundation made up of industry specific domain models and defined product capabilities.
Get a jump on innovation in your industry
Just as your market continues to evolve, IBM is continually developing new industry specific roadmaps to address your business needs to be announced later in the year. Currently, a number of industries can reap the benefits of these key SOA Industry Roadmaps:
- Banking - realize a significant return on investment in electronic payment processing with our banking for payment framework.
- Healthcare
- Improve provider loyalty by offering easier member enrollment with our healthcare for member enrollment framework.
- Optimize the provider benefit and eligibility inquiry process with our healthcare for benefits and eligibility verification framework.
- Insurance - provide real-time access to policy, claims and related data through multiple modes of communication with our insurance for agent collaboration framework.
- Telecommunications -
- Accelerate solution development for operations with our telecommunications for order to cash framework.
- Establish best practices for service providers with our telecommunications for quad play framework.
- Retail - implement customer-centric retailing with our retail for total store framework.
- Industrial - Improve time-to-market and product innovation through supply chain collaboration with our product lifecycle management framework.
Take it at your own pace
These SOA Industry Roadmaps are designed to help your business deploy SOA solutions that deliver business value quickly. These roadmaps do not imply "all or nothing" or "big bang" commitments but rather support an incremental approach with each project undertaken increasing reuse and agility. When coupled with industry skills, know-how, and leading methodologies from IBM Global Business Consulting, they provide an end-to-end offering to drive business model innovation. To complement the roadmaps, IBM Global Consulting is also introducing four new professional services to assist in your company's SOA roadmap implementation.
Next Steps
Questions about our new SOA Roadmap or Framework offering?
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