Bringing Insights into SOA
Adoption Services – our SOA Offerings
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SOA Practice: Services in SOA lifecycle
Consulting services SOA Governance
-- Strategic consulting
+ Infrastructure consulting:
platform/technology selection, etc
+ Architecture consulting: design or
review architecture
+ SOA roadmap: SOA Levels, SOA
governance, SOA-process analysis
-- Performance optimization services
SOA adoption services
-- SOA adoption services for J2EE
- Bite-sized-SOA
-- SOA pilots and prototype
development = Imaginea Offerings
-- Mentoring services
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Service: SOA Adoption Strategy Consulting
Value for ISVs
• Platform/Technology selection for
• Not all ISVs have moved to SOA –
SOA some require advice and expertise to
help their customers with SOA
• Propose/Review architecture/design solutions
for web services-enabling a J2EE • Help ISVs prepare a roadmap for
infrastructure adoption of various maturity levels of
SOA
• Develop a roadmap for adoption of
Value for Enterprises
SOA • Enterprises seek a reliable and
experienced implementer to migrate
their J2EE infrastructure to a SOA-
based one
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Service: SOA Prototypes
Value for ISVs
• Selection of right candidates for SOA
• For complex or challenging projects
pilots and developing the ISVs need prototyping services to
implementation strategy either make a case for SOA or to take
forward their customer engagement
• Develop prototype of a SOA to prove
concept and capability Value for Enterprises
• Pilot implementation of a SOA for a • Enterprises need a proof point before
department/component they make a pitch to invest in
enterprise-wide SOA
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Service: Jumpstart J2EE to SOA a.k.a. Bite-sized SOA
Value for ISVs
• Webservice enable a J2EE app or a • ISVs would want to phase the
component of it. implementation of SOA. First, pilots in a
few departments to achieve SOA in
• Build on J2EE infrastructure or isolation and for better architecture,
before mashing all of them together.
even some lightweight webservice
• ISVs who are not fully ready with SOA,
wrappers or use an open source need help in preparing proposals or
SOA platform stack reviewing architecture of SOA-based
solution. In any case, an expert-review for
• Propose/Review a possible large or complex
architecture/design for web implementation is always good
services-enabling a J2EE Value for Enterprises
infrastructure • Enterprises who are adopting SOA by
themselves, would want to take a cautious
approach without much investment
initially. They would first go with only
service-enablement. Once proven, they
would invest in a full blown
implementation, possibly using a
commercial SOA platform.
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Service: Mentoring a team on the SOA-way
• Coaching and guiding a team in Value for ISVs
implementing a SOA infrastructure, • Helping the ISV development team
either full time by being part of the which is new to SOA by reviews and
in some cases co-development
team or being involved part time as
• Skills upgrade and mindset change of
a hand-holding exercise developers
• Covers value of SOA governance,
Value for Enterprises
design and other considerations • Same as ISV
while developing in a service
oriented environment
“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, Value for ISVs
implementing a SOA Open Source • ISVs gain advice and expertise in
stack for cost-conscious customers various open source stacks
Value for Enterprises
• Cost effective option to 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.
From a recent Forrester report
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Service: SOA performance and optimization
• Architectural & design reviews for Value for ISVs
performance optimization of a loosely • ISVs may want expert advice on
coupled distributed system performance of an existing SOA
implementation
• Performance testing to identify
bottlenecks, scalability issues, and Value for Enterprises
• Enterprises may want to have their
points of failure SOA 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 Value for ISVs
• Creating Services & Processes • ISVs require help in
understanding and implementing
repository/registry SOA governance
• Defining policies in a Policies registry &
Value for Enterprises
enabling automated enforcement • Enterprises want ROI for SOA
• Establishing architecture guidelines and help in ensuring that
governance issues are addressed
• Setting up automated test process
• Help decide SOA metrics and create
dashboard for monitoring it
• Establish security policy
“The lack of governance is one of the most common reasons SOA projects fail.”
Gartner
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SOA Governance

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 • SOA need assessment
ROI and metrics • Executive sponsors and value
• Bringing ownership and statement
accountability • Players and roles
• Controlling chaos and • Ownership for development and
inefficiencies production
• Managing complexity as your SOA • Approval processes
implementation grows
• Service level agreements
• Maximizes value of IT investments
• Monitoring framework &
• Strengthens communication 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
1. 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
2. Some custom tools depending on customer’s existing
technology/architecture and line of business needs
3. Some readymade process templates for reviews, approvals, etc
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Leveraging open source
for SMEs

Our SME focused services
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
 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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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
• 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
• No vendor lock-in
• Low barrier to adoption
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