SOA

Organizations implementing service oriented architectures need to address the problem of delivering the benefits of re-use and agility where they can be seen at the desktop particularly :-

• Where there is a need to custom code composite applications for users defeating the objective of SOA re-use and agility
• Where major SOA programmes need to wait for full service enablement before demonstrating benefits
• Where services based on XML and SOAP are impossible for business users to to interact with and understand

Corizon applies SOA concepts to the user interface level, complementing web services with UI Services, which are then ""orchestrated"" and combined to rapidly and economically deliver seamless composite applications for users. As a result overall return on investment in SOA can be brought forward and increased:-

• service providers can deliver re-usable UI, this lowers the cost of consuming the service in composite applications for users
• service consumers can build and change composite applications with minimal effort or technical skills
• composite applications can include tactically created UI Services that anticipate full service enablement but ensure end user and business case needs are met
• business users and sponsors can visualise and explore services via their UI counterparts, bridging the disconnect between business and IT over the meaning and value of SOA