SOA Highway

The IBM^® series that shows you the fast track to business flexibility

Welcome to your first stop along the SOA Highway where you can register to receive all the latest case studies, analyst recommendations, thought leadership from IBM, webcasts, event invitations, self assessments and hands-on demos based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Our experts have constructed a virtual series to get relevant and customised information to you - accelerating your potential for success with SOA. Every three weeks, you'll receive an email with a new resource, from independent and IBM sources, to extend your knowledge and help you develop your skills in this rapidly-changing field.

SOA Streams

Getting Started with SOA

To help you get started with SOA, IBM offers business/IT aligned SOA Entry Points. They let you get started quickly with an approach that focus on the fundamental assets of your enterprise, People, process and information, along with key SOA aspects of connectivity and service reuse, which is a key item for achieving the promise of value from SOA.
Using SOA for Portals & Collaboration

Are your employees, partners and customers enabled to take advantage of SOA to drive operational flexibility, greater productivity and collaboration? By allowing people to interact with SOA - based business services and composite applications, through an enabling framework of tools and practices, this entry point can facilitate real-time decision-making, dynamic collaboration and immediate execution.
Reuse and Connectivity

These complementary entry points to SOA focus on extending the value of existing investments and reducing the cost and complexity of interfacing multiple systems in your organisation. Through 'reuse' companies can learn to modernise and service enable their existing IT assets. Through 'connectivity' there is a focus on being able to connect numerous interfaces whilst still future proofing against changes in application linkages down the track. These entry points are a valuable way to either help you develop the next stage in your SOA project or simply get you started.

SOA Governance

SOA Governance is designed to enable organisations to realise the full potential of SOA. It addresses issues that, if left unattended, may be inhibitors to gaining the flexibility and time-to-market benefits associated with SOA. Effective governance is more than just technology. It calls for a lifecycle approach which integrates an organisation's people, processes, information and assets.
Business Process Management Enabled by SOA

This is a business-centric starting point for SOA that provides specific tools and services to streamline Business Process Management (BPM) for continuous innovation. BPM, when combined with SOA, can help you achieve business agility and deliver enhanced value. IBM is helping customers optimise their clients with a comprehensive suite of solutions to model, assemble, deploy and manage processes.
Business Rules Management System (BRMS)

BRMS allows companies to adapt and respond to changes in the business environment faster by defining the parameters of a decision engine which guide system behavior. This entry point allows you to develop an understanding of BRMS via case studies, customer videos and demos.
Dynamic Application Infrastructure (DAI)

A dynamic application infrastructure is critical to companies looking to build an on demand business framework to reach more customers in a cost effective manner. This entry point allows you to build a business case by referencing agile enterprises which have built a better business by deploying IBM Application Solutions.