Insight into Imaginea's complete SOA Offerings for ISVs and other customers

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SOA Adoption Services
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SOA Practice: Services in SOA lifecycle
Consulting services
o Strategic consulting
• Infrastructure consulting:
platform/technology selection, etc
• Architecture consulting: design or
review architecture
• SOA roadmap: SOA Levels, SOA
governance, SOA-process analysis
o Performance optimization
services
SOA adoption services
o SOA adoption services for
J2EE
• Bite-sized-SOA
o SOA pilots and prototype
development
o Mentoring services

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Service: SOA Adoption Strategy Consulting
• Platform/Technology selection for SOA
• Propose/Review architecture/design for web services-enabling a J2EE
infrastructure
• Develop a roadmap for adoption of SOA
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• Not all ISVs have moved to SOA – • Enterprises seek a reliable and
some require advice and expertise experienced implementer to
to help their customers with SOA migrate their J2EE infrastructure
solutions to an SOA-based one
• Help ISVs prepare a roadmap for
adoption of various maturity
levels of SOA

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Service: SOA Prototypes
• Selection of right candidates for SOA pilots and developing the
implementation strategy
• Develop prototype of an SOA to prove concept and capability
• Pilot implementation of an SOA for a department/component
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• For complex and challenging • Enterprises need a proof point
projects, ISVs need prototyping before they make a pitch to invest
services to either make a case for in enterprise-wide SOA
SOA or to take their customer
engagement forward

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Service: SOA Adoption Strategy Consulting
• Web service enable a J2EE app or a component of it.
• Build on J2EE infrastructure or even some lightweight web service wrappers
or use an open source SOA platform stack
• Propose/Review architecture/design for web services-enabling a J2EE
infrastructure
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• ISVs would want to phase the • Enterprises who are adopting SOA by
implementation of SOA. First, pilots in themselves, would want to take a
a few departments to achieve SOA in cautious approach without much
isolation and for better architecture, investment initially. They would first
before mashing all of them together. go with only service-enablement. Once
• ISVs who are not fully ready with SOA, proven, they would invest in a full
need help in preparing proposals or blown implementation, possibly using
reviewing architecture of SOA-based a commercial SOA platform
solution. In any case, an expert-review
for a possible large or complex
implementation is always good

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Service: Mentoring a team on the SOA-way
• Coaching and guiding a team in implementing a SOA infrastructure, either
full time by being part of the team or being involved part time as a hand-
holding exercise
• Covers value of SOA governance, design and other considerations while
developing in a service oriented environment
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• Helping the ISV development • Same as ISV
team which is new to SOA by
reviews and in some cases co-
development
• Skills upgrade and mindset
change of developers
“31% of all SOA budget funds are spent on re-skilling existing staff. As SOA maturity
grows, the cost of education falls.”
- Survey of 150 business & IT executives by GCR Custom Research LLC

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Service: Open-source stack implementation
• Recommending, putting together, implementing a SOA Open Source stack for
cost-conscious customers
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• ISVs gain advice and expertise in • Cost effective option to
various open source stacks commercial SOA platform
• Technical openness
• Possibility to extend or upgrade to
other stacks or commercial
products
71% decision makers viewed open source as important or very important for
consolidating IT infrastructure.
57% said that they saw open source as "important" or "very important" for facilitating a
migration to SOA.
74% expressed concern about the availability of consulting, integration, support and
other services for open source software.

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Service: SOA performance and optimization
• Architectural & design reviews for performance optimization of a loosely
coupled distributed system
• Performance testing to identify bottlenecks, scalability issues, and points of
failure
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• ISVs may want expert advice on • Enterprises may want to have
performance of an existing SOA their SOA implementation
implementation optimized by experts who
understand this well
“Only 23% of the SOA-adopting enterprises claimed to be beyond the pilot stage and in
full production of SOA”
- IDC survey of SOA-adopting enterprises in the US

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Service: SOA Governance
• Establish SOA need, stakeholders, roles
• Creating Services & Processes repository/registry
• Defining policies in a Policies registry & enabling automated enforcement
• Establishing architecture guidelines
• Setting up automated test process
• Help decide SOA metrics and create dashboard for monitoring it
• Establish security policy
Value for ISVs Value for Enterprises
• ISVs require help in • Enterprises want ROI for SOA and
understanding and implementing help in ensuring that governance
SOA governance issues are addressed
“The lack of governance is one of the most common reasons SOA projects fail.”
- Gartner

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SOA Governance

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SOA Governance & its infrastructure
• SMEs need to have SOA governance as part of their SOA strategy
• SMEs need a more pragmatic and lighter approach to governance
• To implement governance, appropriate tooling is required. This
could be part of the existing SOA platform or a third party
governance product or a custom built one
• Imaginea can build/assemble a SOA governance platform or
implement an existing one

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SOA Governance – the context
Governance promises Governance enablers
• Definition and tracking of SOA ROI • SOA need assessment
and metrics • Executive sponsors and value
• Bringing ownership and statement
accountability • Players and roles
• Controlling chaos and inefficiencies • Ownership for development and
• Managing complexity as your SOA production
implementation grows • Approval processes
• Maximizes value of IT investments • Service level agreements
• Strengthens communication • Monitoring framework & dashboard
between Business and IT
• Security policy

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Our SOA-Governance Services
• Incorporate governance in your SOA strategy
• Implement a commercial SOA governance product
• Build a lightweight SOA-Governance platform leveraging open source
― the power of Dekoh for UI and agents
― various open source products
• Mentor developers and prepare organization for governance
• Help in establishing policy content including guidelines for architecture,
service testing, etc.

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Our SOA-Governance product offering
• The off the shelf SOA-Governance platform
― Dekoh Enterprise ed. as distributed agent infrastructure
― Covers
― Registries and Repositories
― Open source SOA Testing and Validation Technologies
― Open source ESB+BPMS for integration to other SOA platforms and for orchestrating processes
required for policy management and enforcement
• Some custom tools depending on customer’s existing technology/architecture and
line of business needs
― Bite-sized SOA … Jumpstart JEE and SOA-enable
― SME SOA Adoption strategy … strategy, prototypes, start-small, grow-big
― Open source SOA stack … recommendation and implementation
― D-I-Y BAM … custom built, per standards like JMX
― SOA-Governance … just enough, design time and run time, leverage open source

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Leveraging open source
for SMEs

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Building on strong J2EE and App Server strengths
• Bite-sized SOA
― Individual applications can adopt SOA in isolation… and be ready for
enterprise SOA in phases
― JEE can be leveraged for building SOA into the apps
― The facades and integration are the key components
― No need for heavy SOA infrastructure
• SOA for SMEs
• Some readymade process templates for reviews, approvals, etc

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Imaginea OSS SOA Stack
• Imaginea can
― Handpick suitable open source components
― Put together a custom integrated open source SOA stack which includes: ESB,
BPMS, Rules Engine and SOA Governance
― Build custom components suiting your architecture or line of business
― Integrate open source and existing proprietary software
― Provide a single operational view of your SOA infrastructure
• Stack Options
― SOA-Lite: Largely SOA enablement of JEE and basic governance features
― SOA-Medium: Includes light BPM & Rules functionality and governance
― SOA-Pro: Includes heavy BPMS and BAM features with full blown
governance

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The value of open source SOA stack
• An effective low-TCO option
• Specially useful
― When SOA ROI is to be proven
― While implementing prototypes or bite-sized SOA
• Best of breed approach
• Hand-picked custom assembly based on needs
• Option to move to supported product from the same vendor, if required
• Standards-based
• No vendor lock-in
• Low barrier to adoption

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The value of open source SOA Governance
• Ideal for low budget SOA adoption projects
― An effective low-TCO solution
• Right-sized governance
― Specific SOA governance needs are addressed
― No unwanted baggage of heavyweight process and governance product
overheads
― No stifling innovation with unnecessary processes
• Leverage any governance components provided by the existing ESB/SOA
platform
• Hand-picked custom assembly based on needs
• No vendor lock-in
• Low barrier to adoption

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