Hydus Inc – Specializes in providing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based enterprise solutions

Services
	Hi5
		Information Architecture
		Integration Architecture
		Business Intelligence
		Workflow Framework
		Operations Frame Work
	SOA
	Master Data Management
	Strategy and Technology Adoption
	Execution
	Training

Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents a shift in the paradigm from application specific software sourced by a particular vendor to one based on end-to-end business processes. SOA describes the way a process (service) can be defined in terms of the outcome of the processes (services). It represents a business activity with pre-defined steps (register a warranty, open an account, or request service).
The systems communicate through interfaces to pass only those data elements mapped to subscribe to the service. The service is platform independent and vendor neutral.

What benefits can SOA provide?

SOA, a collection of services, breaks massive, rigid, applications into finer grain services to

	Make an application’s functionality available enterprise-wide through standard protocols
	Enable new applications and processes from existing services
	Allow reuse of existing IT assets
	Provide visibility to business processes
	Expedite low-cost assembly of new business processes
	Facilitate incremental development and implementation of business software
	Increase productivity, flexibility, and corporate agility in meeting market place challenges

What challenges are associated with SOA?

	Initial high cost of implementing an enterprise solution and changes in the business model
	Complex monitoring and auditing requirements posed by Net-centric business processes
	Governace for service configurations when dealing with service interface changes
	Security risks posed by data sharing.
What are some of the barriers to SOA?
	Technical Barriers
		Canonical Representations
		Granularity
		Versioning
		Transport mechanism
		Standards – for the sake of it
	Organizational Barriers:
		Learning curve
		Transition from application centric to service centric development and support
		Information ownership
		Application ownership
		Service ownership
		Services governance and support
		Lack of Support from both Executive management and IT
		Lack of experienced personnel to address issues of Enterprise Technology, Master Data Management, and Business Information Architecture
How can Hydus help?
	Hydus has successfully implemented SOA-based projects for several Fortune 500 companies since 2000. Hydus, through Hi5, HIS, HWF, and HIM, can assist you in:
		Defining goals for the SOA initiative using
		Defining a strategic approach for adopting SOA
		Build SOA Competency Center
		Develop and implement project engagement process for adoption of SOA
		Defining the Roadmap for SOA
		Defining the process/policies to enforce/adopt SOA
		Define Common Data Models for service definitions
		Implement and support solution based on SOA
		Develop Services Life Cycle process and Services SLAs

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