Enabling the Agile Enterprise
The challenge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—and a key to achieving business value—is elevating service enablement beyond technology functions. A SOA must encompass disparate applications and platforms, orchestrating and controlling them in the context of business processes.
But from the outset, organizations face the challenge of where to start. What services are going to add immediate value? And how are they going to be used by the most important business functions? Identifying the services that are consumed by the most critical business processes in an organization can be a daunting proposition.
That’s why Enterprise Architecture (EA), Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM) together combine as a key component of effective service-orientation. SOA relies on the work of EA, BPA and BPM to define, analyze, and execute resources where SOA has the best effect. The result is an agile enterprise in which business models drive executable business processes powered by a portfolio of services.
To answer the demand for collaborative and business-driven SOA, Metastorm Enterprise™ provides a set of interrelated, state-of-the-art offerings that enable visibility across the enterprise – thus helping organizations to build systems that reflect business processes, adapt as processes change, and improve productivity and process consistency.
Benefits of using Metastorm for SOA
Whether working together or as separate solutions, Metastorm ProVision®, Metastorm BPM and Metastorm Integration Manager (MIM) help you realize business value from SOA:
- The Metastorm ProVision enterprise modeling solution helps business users participate in SOA initiatives and also supports the role of business and system engineers by effectively defining execution-ready activities that marry business processes to the services that make them work.
- Metastorm BPM guides service enablement and is an active consumer of services. It allows actions within automated business processes to be exposed via the SOA. With BPM orchestration, this exposure of key business events and information to users at the appropriate times and in the appropriate contexts adds business value that might not otherwise be achieved with an SOA.
- MIM, the system-based process management component of the Metastorm platform, manages the execution of those services in key business processes under a single SOA – integrating legacy mainframe applications, enabling real-time data transfer, and exposing legacy applications as services.
Contact us to see how you can use Metastorm Enterprise to leverage EA, BPA and BPM in your SOA program and help enable enterprise agility.
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