Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Entry Points tabs
- Overview
- People- selected tab,
- Process
- Information
- Reuse
- Connectivity
What is the people entry point?
Are your employees, partners, and customers enabled to take advantage of SOA to drive greater productivity and collaboration? People can interact with SOA-based business services and composite applications through an enabling framework of tools, and practices. The people entry point is a starting point for SOA, enabling people to interact with application and information services that support business processes. As a complement to the other entry points — process, information, reuse and connectivity—the people entry point can facilitate real time decision making and dynamic collaboration, and immediate execution. Overall, the people entry point approach to SOA drives business and operational flexibility and improves end-user productivity and collaboration.
The value of people
Employee productivity, operational efficiency and the ability to innovate on the fly are paramount to competitiveness and growth. Companies frequently struggle with siloed applications and information that prevent customers, employees, and partners from working together effectively. Empowering people through SOA solutions can bridge these challenges and provide a foundation for greater productivity and collaboration. Because people drive the interaction with the SOA services that execute business results, focusing on people is critical to the success of SOA implementations. The people entry strategy to SOA can help:
- Accelerate productivity
- Reduce costs for access to multiple applications and information sources.
- Reduce time to deployment for new services.
- Increase access to process flexibility and orchestration.
- Enable collaboration inside and outside the enterprise.
Get started today
A business centric approach to SOA begins with the analysis of your business to discover the areas which will most quickly benefit from improved access and interaction by people in critical business areas.
IBM has market leading portal and collaboration software and targeted service offerings to get you started and help accelerate your path to SOA in these areas.
IBM WebSphere® Portal software serves as a foundational starting point to SOA for many companies. It provides the essential framework for organizations to give people access to the right content, applications and processes based on their roles.
Accelerators for WebSphere Portal help deliver business value and faster time-to-value by addressing specific project needs.
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory software provides the tools and technology to rapidly create, customize, maintain and deploy portlets.
IBM Lotus Forms - Open standards based eForms to accelerate process automation.
IBM Lotus Expeditor, IBM’s universal managed client software, extends composite applications to various devices.
To get started today, talk to your IBM representative about your business goals or contact IBM directly at soa@us.ibm.com.
