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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to help companies respond to today’s challenging market by transforming them into flexible, on demand businesses.
SOA is an architectural approach to building applications and enables rapid development and deployment of new services to meet business needs. It delivers greater levels of business agility by using formally defined software interfaces to increase the re-usability of applications, break down technology-driven barriers among internal and external organizations, and lower the costs of integration.
| Business Challenge | IT Imperative |
|---|---|
| Increase the speed of business changes | Become a more responsive IT organization to quickly adapt to changing business priorities |
| Improve business efficiency and performance | Align IT more tightly with business strategies in a cost effective manner |
| Protect critical business assets | Provide a secure and managed integration environment |
As organizations progress with their SOA initiatives they realize implementing SOA based applications is not without its IT management challenges:
- How would an administrator effectively troubleshoot SOA-based composite application performance when services are virtualized and distributed across multiple hardware resources?
- How would an application architect gain an end-to-end understanding of their services-oriented environment?
- How does a company manage identities and enforce security for SOA application users who span organizational boundaries?
IBM® Tivoli® software can help administrators and architects monitor, manage, secure, and control end-to-end implementations of SOA-based services and applications. By providing products which are modular, yet integrated, IBM can help streamline the IT processes necessary to support the increased change introduced by SOA. In addition, IBM software integrates across your existing IT management software to reduce costs and deliver holistic and automated management of the IT infrastructure.
