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BANGALORE: To facilitate the adoption of SOA in companies for better and faster business process, IBM recently announced new software and services. The new IBM offerings will help customers build what are known as "service oriented architectures," (SOAs) collections of business processes that rely on reusable standard interfaces to integrate applications inside a company as well as externally with customers and suppliers.

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IBM has been laying the groundwork for SOAs through IBM's Java-based WebSphere Application Server and integration software, Tivoli's infrastructure management and security software, leadership in developing industry standards for Web services, as well as IBM's industry knowledge, products and services that solve business problems.



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An SOA breaks down business components into basic building blocks, just as the standardized software interfaces allow the IT infrastructure to be componentized. Flexible business processes can then be matched with flexible IT processes. For example, the month long processes a bank uses to approve a mortgage can potentially be reduced to weeks, or even days, by linking the bank's business and IT processes in an SOA. Customers can adopt SOAs to solve a small number of business problems and scale the SOA implementation at their own pace until the enterprise is transformed to a complete on demand business.



WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation allows customers to build and integrate applications within service oriented architectures. This is one of the first products from a major vendor to offer native support for the Business Process Execution Language, an industry standard specification executing business logic. WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation allows customers to create reusable services out of their existing Web services and packaged applications as well as combine services to link business processes with software applications.

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IBM's Strategy and Planning for Service Oriented Architectures from IGS helps customers identify business and technology capabilities required to take advantage of service oriented computing. Strategy and Planning for Service Oriented Architectures follows a path beginning and ending with client objectives, with the results of a business services map identifying SOA business service candidates, SOA vision, SOA functional building blocks, SOA governance model, an SOA reference model architecture and an SOA transition plan for realizing the customer specific SOA.



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For customers with data in legacy systems, IGS will offer Application Renovation and Integration for Services Oriented Architectures. This will help customers determine if there is value in exposing legacy data and linking it with new business processes in the SOA. IBM will also help customers restructure their legacy applications to become part of the SOA.



 

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