Service Oriented Architecture

Today’s organizations face challenges of numerous systems that are difficult to maintain. These systems were integrated and enmeshed over time, which causes small changes to have unexpected, cascading effects in other systems. As time goes on, organizations have found themselves with “spaghetti architectures” that include multiple single points of failure and few subject matter experts who understand how everything fits together. The resulting lack of agility cripples both IT and the business, and systems are very difficult to maintain and even more difficult to enhance.

SOA is essentially the next generation of distributed computing and modular programming, based on web services. Through proper reuse and abstraction, the drivers of Service Oriented Architectures include:

• Lower Cost of Ownership
• Improved Time to Market
• Reduction of Business Risk

Cardinal has a specialty practice committed to helping organizations achieve the benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture. By moving beyond traditional client-server and appropriately applying technology, Cardinal architects can ensure best practices are followed which reduces enmeshed systems that are difficult to maintain and difficult to drive business innovation.

Cardinal couples our Service Oriented Approach with best practices from a Business Process Management, Master Data Management, and Governance to achieve full benefits out of your SOA.