Reusability of IT resources, interoperability and flexibility of the enterprise information systems are some of the promises made by SOA. It provides the competitive edge needed to survive in a world that increasingly asks for information to be delivered in a more agile way.
Obtaining and maintaining this competitive edge is not an easy task, however. One of the most important succes factors is knowledge and experience with many organisational and technical aspects of SOA. Xebia can help you with the design and implementation of your integration strategy and architecture. Xebia can also help you structure the integration effort by setting up an integration or middleware competence centre, so your investments will last. By having experienced people guiding you, you will obtain results and a state-of-the-art integration environment faster.
In addition, Xebia believes that success of SOA depends on the ability to manage your SOA yourself. Xebia participates actively in knowledge transfer by facilitating workshops, knowledge exchange sessions, presentations and masterclasses.
Xebia has specialists with high-level knowledge of integration, its impact on the business, and how to handle it successfully. In addition, these specialists have detailed knowledge of many technologies used for implementation (like Enterprise Java, XML, web services, brokers, ESBs), the relevant methodologies and paradigms (like event-driven architecture and BPM). Using this broad knowledge, they can quickly and effectively perform the analysis and design needed for your integration effort. Once that's done, we can help you set up an integration infrastructure and competence centre.
Thing big, act small
SOA brings agility to organisations. Xebia believes that the SOA and EAI themself should be introduced in an Agile way. The focus always remains on the business value and goals. Some of them are achieved already after the first steps of the migration process. SOA is not the goal by itself, but the architecture style to achieve the business value.
Xebia also helps in defining a business case for SOA and definition of requirements. Both are drivers for delivering the real business value.
No silver bullet
In the SOA world, there are many vendors, products and technologies. The problem is that none of them delivers the silver bullets. Xebia believes that good design and proper requirements management should be superior to technology and middleware products.
