Service Oriented Architecture empowers enterprises to achieve rapid scalability and increased agility in their businesses by leveraging existing software resources. Existing applications are exposed as services and these services are orchestrated to build a composite application to achieve enterprise integration and business process automation.
However, these gains are accompanied by a significant increase in system complexity. Organizations have to deal with the task of governing distributed infrastructure that consist of interdependent services.
SOA based applications typically comprise of disparate IT assets. Services are built on .NET, Java services, C, C++, ERP, CRM and other legacy assets. They can also include services built by other departments, available through packaged applications and others published by partners or external service providers. This implies that services can include components you don't own or control. This in turn implies they can change or fail independently and without the ability to customize or repair them.
After you have dealt with the major task of controlling changes brought about by a SOA based implementation, there is the matter of evolution and scale to deal with as SOA systems evolve quickly. The complexities increase with scale as new application versions are published and additional applications are incorporated into the SOA fabric. A change to any service can spark a cascading effect, potentially jeopardizing the whole system. Therefore, success with SOA lies in gaining visibility into, and control of these quickly evolving disparate systems.
Example: In composite applications exhibiting slow response or throughput it is extremely challenging to figure out the problem. SOADirector can automate the root cause analysis and can take corrective/preventive actions such as load balancing, service provisioning, sending alerts and/or adaptive routing based on pre-configured policies to overcome these challenges.
SOAMatrix offers the most comprehensive SOA infrastructure solution addressing SOA Registry/Repository (SOAStoreTM), Governance and Management (SOADirectorTM).
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