Re-imagine more from your business

There is no debate: Rapid change, fierce competition and an ever-flattening world economy are driving the need for superior business agility. A new class of truly agile organisations, the globally integrated enterprise, is emerging as the winner. How? By delivering unique value, tapping into the power of globalisation and forging a strategy of componentisation.

These organisations understand that using service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a preferred method of delivering sustainable agility. They need this agility - that is, the ability to quickly and effectively respond to changes, opportunities and threats - to compete effectively.

Introducing Smart SOA. The most successful of these organisations implement SOA with a focus on business value and use tested and proven techniques. Smart SOA is a set of guiding principles developed by IBM, based on our unique experience working with more than 5700 customers using our SOA offerings.

Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment, from basic to advanced projects. Smart SOA demands simplicity and robustness in every project, eliminating unnecessary complexity while building a strong foundation for future growth.

What Smart SOA style is right for you?

It depends on your business needs and priorities. With Smart SOA, you can find value at every stage of the SOA continuum, from departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives:

• Foundational - establish greater agility in specific, departmental business areas.
• Extend end-to-end - optimise and innovate across end-to-end business processes encompassing people, processes, and information.
• Transform - implement business model innovation to support your Globally Integrated Enterprise.
• Adapt dynamically - a future ideal to automatically sense and respond to market forces without the degree of human intervention that is required today.

Get smart about SOA. Learn more about how IBM can help you get there:

• The business value of Smart SOA
• The IT value of Smart SOA

Stop talking. Start doing. Do it with Smart SOA - and discover the agility that can help your company become a world-class competitor.