Systems Integration Services

SOA: Bridging Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA) ensures business-IT alignment. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) bridges the gap between business and IT through well defined, business aligned services. The objectives of EA and SOA are quite... similar. However, while EA is a framework that covers all dimensions of enterprise IT architecture, SOA provides an architectural strategy that uses the concept of a 'service' as the underpinning business-IT alignment entity.

Service Orientation - Beyond Integration and Architecture

SOA is mainstream today and is beyond the pilot phase in many enterprises. What is the catalyst for this success? A common theme that appears is that the modularity and flexibility SOA offers has begun to provide meaningful results.... The key to leveraging standards based contract driven approach to IT provisioning for business, lies in successful engineering of the contracts and interfaces with a business orientation.

Big Sourcing Deals and Managing Offshoring Programs

Infosys, like many tier-1 global software services firms, has excellent credentials in managing IT projects with clients. This said, there is an opportunity area that seems to be presenting itself in the market as clients ask about capabilities... in managing end-to-end initiatives and programs for them. Infosys practitioner Mohan Babu K. illustrates this with an extension of a model he had explored in his book, Offshoring IT Services.