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Reduce complexity and increase efficiency
as a “service-oriented enterprise”
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With the promise of reducing IT complexity, enabling a tighter mapping of IT to business goals, and reducing IT costs through reuse of solution components, the service-oriented enterprise is a movement whose time has come. Simply put, SOA and “service-oriented” approaches are about redefining software and IT capabilities as reusable, easily integrated services. By organizing around services, rather than applications, your enterprise can more rapidly and efficiently meet changing business challenges.
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Businesses today face a wide range of issues that impede growth and profitability. Chief among them is the need for greater flexibility, driven by factors such as multichannel strategies, pressure to improve time to market, global competition, etc. In particular, many businesses have failed to effectively integrate their web-based channels and connect them to their legacy systems.
At the same time, companies are striving for adaptive cross-functional processes that can connect the silos created by ERP systems, while reducing unsupportable dependencies and costs. Today many companies' systems are linked together with an increasing amount of "spaghetti." The result is that too much of their budget is devoted to maintaining existing capabilities and staffing to support legacy systems, leaving little room for innovation and investment in the future.
The new generation of IT creates innovative solutions through the integration of standardized services. Services bring more flexibility to your business; processes and underlying systems can easily be modified and rebuilt. Simplified services are a powerful weapon in the battle against the ever growing complexity of technology, processes and infrastructures. Benefits include standardization, reduced variability, capability reuse, and improved quality.
Once an organization gets a firm grip on its portfolio of services, management will gain more insight into the cost and the value of the different components. This provides the information needed to decide whether to split, consolidate or even outsource services.
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Technology Enablers
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Getting Started - Making SOA Real.
SOA, while simple in concept, requires careful planning and analysis to implement fully. Industry leaders like Capgemini, HP, Intel, and Oracle are working together to streamline the process and minimize the challenges to enable smooth adoption of SOA. A logical first step is to analyze business processes, requirements and IT capabilities in terms of services. Once the current situation and desired future state are clarified/known, more detailed transition, software and hardware architecture plans can be defined.
• Website: Read more about Capgemini's SOA capability
Virtualization & Data Center Consolidation
Virtualization has been called the most significant change to PC architecture this decade. Intel Virtualization Technology is a set of hardware enhancements that allow Intel platforms to run multiple operating systems and applications independently. With the enhanced flexibility and improved security it makes possible, virtualization dramatically enhances business' ability to consolidate its servers and use them more efficiently. By one estimate, enterprises that leverage virtualization will pay up to 40% less in acquisition costs by 2008 and roughly 20% less in administrative costs.
To help IT organizations achieve more and get faster return on investment from consolidation, Intel is delivering complementary, optimized hardware support that magnifies the value of leading virtualization software solutions.
- Improve security, robustness and interoperability
- Boost server performance and capacity
- Improve server uptime
• Intel Case Study: Edison Group, Inc. - Optimizing Virtualized Datacenters
• Intel Case Study: Edison Group, Inc. - Business Value in Virtualization
• Intel White Paper: Hardware-Assisted Virtualization for Today's Businesses
• Intel White Paper: Driving Down Costs through Server Consolidation
• Intel White Paper: Enhanced Virtualization on Intel® Architecture
• Intel Case Study: Server Consolidation Yields More Than Cost Savings for Growing
Australian City
• Intel White Paper: Leveraging Data Center Consolidation to Reduce IT Costs 20% Over
Three Years
• Intel Case Study: Virtualization Technology Drives Next-generation Hosting
for Tailback Inc.
Resources
- Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual
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- The Service Oriented Enterprise: Welcome to the End of Business As Usual
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The End of Business As Usual
Intel Chief Strategist Chris S. Thomas and Capgemini Global CTO Andy Mulholland discuss how "mashup corporations" take advantage of globalized services and capabilities to drive new revenue models.
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