SOA is supposed to turn IT into a set of building blocks that can be easily and securely combined as your organization needs.  The tantalising promise is of closer alignment between IT and business.  

The reality of SOA programmes is more likely to be that SOA is a technical, IT-centric activity that means little to the business.  SOA projects can all too easily get bogged down in the details of integration, losing track of the fact that they’ll be judged by the results they generate. As budgets get tighter the timescales for results gets even shorter.

Flexibility and integration at the UI

At Corizon we believe that the business impact of SOA investments can be seen and measured where they become tangible to the business: at the User Interface. This requires enterprise mashup capabillities to easily build composite applications safely and quickly, giving concrete, business based benefits.

Our technology makes sure that the benefits of re-use and composition apply all the way to the end user.  It brings a new weapon to the SOA armory that shortcuts the long winded and complex process of writing custom code.  The result is that

• End users get intuitive composite applications that let them access all the functionality they need to do their job effectively.
• Process owners can own and direct the creation of solutions that control and measure user tasks that span multiple applications and services.
• IT gets control, re-use, reduced integration costs and can bring the business into the development of IT solutions.

SOA booster: Reduce risks and accelerate results

Introducing Corizon as part of a move to SOA reduces risk and accelerates results.

• Focus on user-oriented composite application projects to deliver rapid, measurable payback.  As a result you can embrace SOA step by step even when budgets are tight and business case requirements are strict.
• Rescue SOA projects from the pitfalls of spending so long focused on data integration challenges that they fail to deliver benefits that the business can measure and recognise.
  • Accelerate deliveries with flexible options for integrating legacy and partner systems that don't necessairly have to wait for full web service enablement. 
  • Adopt a tactical quick fix to integrating legacy systems you are going to retire.
• Validate your design for business services, “right sizing” them through practical experience in re-use across multiple composite applications.

As you architecture matures, Corizon provides the essential capabilities needed for enterprise mashups, ensuring you avoid recreating the historical problems of stovepipe solutions and "guerrilla applications" in a new context. 

Without Corizon	With Corizon
"Bottom up" only approach to service enabling can obscure end goal of creating agility and re-use for the business Service consumers must have advanced skills and domain knowledge required to create UI for each user group  and task User interface functionality related to each service function must be implemented and maintained each time it is used.	Service producers can provide and maintain the UI that supports the use of the functionality they provide by end users. UI services can be created tactically, shortcutting long integration projects.  Service consumers working closely with the business can easily create composite applications that match user processes without advanced skills and needing to continually "reinvent the wheel".

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