Plan your approach to SOA using industry best practices

The most important part of implementing a Service Oriented Architecture is planning. Intelligent Chaos offers planning and design services to assist you in determining which approach should be taken in your implementation of SOA. You can rely on IC's knowledge of SOA and web services to provide you with a clearer path to the future.

SOA Readiness Analysis
The first step on the path towards an SOA is to analyze your organization's SOA readiness-- that is to evaluate your knowledge of SOA tools and techniques and the capabilities of relevant technical staff. The information gathered during this analysis helps you plan training and development activities, as well as determine the rate of adoption of SOA appropriate for your firm.    

SOA Assessment
The goal of this activity is to give you an overview of SOA approaches and  technologies, as well as an understanding of the organizational changes required when implementing SOA and a “reusability–driven” IT culture. As part of this activity, IC will help you define your SOA vision and develop a high-level roadmap of the steps necessary to implement SOA for your organization.

SOA Reference Architecture Planning
The purpose of this planning activity is to define a baseline architecture for SOA and web services that is relevant to your needs. Included in this activity is a draft implementation time frame.

Architectural Design
The architectural design includes detailed information on the IT infrastructure required to support SOA in your environment. This design ties to identified needs and helps map a path for future growth.

SOA Transformation Planning
This task is aimed at assisting organizations in identifying the changes they need to make to people, processes, and technology in order for their implementation of SOA to be successful. Focusing on the people-dynamic, IC provides assistance with organizational change management so as to ensure that your SOA projects are a success.