Flexible, Nimble Software Services To Transform Public Sector Agencies, According to BEA Systems
The New SOA Movement Can Help Simpler, More Cost-Effective IT in the Government Sector
FEDERAL EXECUTIVE FORUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. May 12, 2005 In simplest terms, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new approach to Information Technology (IT) that is organized around services, not applications, a design that can help meet business needs with greater efficiency, said Bruce Graham, vice president of worldwide professional services, BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS).
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Grahams comments were part of his keynote today at the BEA Federal Executive Forum in Washington, D.C. Graham spoke to C-level executives and IT staff from more than 50 government agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Air Force. He discussed how new IT approaches such as SOA are impacting the ability of IT to align closer to an organizations business needs.
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SOA is a methodology whereby the services that an organization provides to clients, customers, citizens, partners and other organizations are the key organizing principles around which IT is aligned. Built on technology standards, these services can be created once and widely leveraged, which can result in costs savings and greater reuse of information assets.
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SOAs basic concept is not new. In fact, it has existed in some form or another for decades, said Graham. SOA is a means to reuse the functionality of existing systems rather than build them from scratch, as well as help enable effective information sharing across multiple departments and business functions. The result is an IT approach that can be designed to more naturally adapt and respond to people and how they work rather than forcing people to adapt to technology.
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Graham described how a successful SOA strategy can result in cost savings and a flexible application infrastructure that can help worldwide government agencies be more responsive to their constituents. In addition, Graham shared some recent statistics on the state of IT understanding of SOA as well as a description of the impact SOA can have on software, highlighting the need for a new enterprise software category -- Service Infrastructure -- to develop a long-term, viable government SOA infrastructure.
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The government and commercial sectors face many of the same challenges, including improved productivity, agility and speed in their computing and application platforms to respond faster to business needs, said Graham. With Service Infrastructure software, organizations can have the ability to reuse existing services and configure composite applications instead of having to code at the application layer, which can take weeks instead of days to do. In the end, Service Infrastructure can help accelerate an organizations transformation to deliver services faster and ultimately help to enable high-performance government.
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Graham said that Service Infrastructure is designed to help enable the secure flow of processes, information and services across and between heterogeneous business environments, while helping to elevate business logic above proprietary applications.
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Graham detailed some specific requirements government customers should consider when deploying a SOA and why Service Infrastructure is designed to help provide a better platform for success, including Service Enablement, Lifecycle Management, Message Brokering, Data Service Layer, Security Service Layer, and Scalable Agility.
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Later this spring, BEA is scheduled to announce new products that address the need for Service Infrastructure. These products can be designed to help enable business process experts and IT operations to compose, deploy, secure, and manage composite applications more rapidly across heterogeneous platforms and technologies by leveraging composition and management tools rather than by writing code.
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For more information on this new Service Infrastructure category, please visit http://www.bea.com/soa for a whitepaper entitled The Advent of a New Service Infrastructure, which details why the next generation of enterprise IT will require this innovative, independent platform and what BEA is doing to simplify enterprise computing.
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In related news, BEA Systems today announced the introduction of its Federal BEA Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Readiness Self-Assessment Tool. Based on the BEA SOA Domain methodology, which highlights six key areas of SOA, the Federal SOA Readiness Self-Assessment tool can help government customers plan and implement an effective SOA strategy. The tool is designed to help IT managers organize the components of SOA adoption, benchmark against peers and provide tools that can help them determine how to effectively work towards a more adaptable IT design and infrastructure. To view the BEA Federal SOA Readiness Self-Assessment Tool please visit: www.bea.com/soa/assessment.
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BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic and Tuxedo brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 37 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at www.bea.com.
