Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Benefits Overview

Sun business integration offers a flexible, secure solution and approach for implementing a service-oriented architecture to aggregate and share business logic and data. This helps you deliver new products and services quickly, reduce costs, and extend your network beyond traditional boundaries.


Key Benefits

Improve Business Visibility

Integrate systems and aggregate data for a consistent, accurate view of your customers:

  • Up-to-the-minute information for improved customer service
  • Cross-enterprise information for targeted 1:1 activities
  • Consistent, accurate and more comprehensive information for better decision-making
 
Learn how KBC Bank & Insurance Group is using Java CAPS as the integration platform for real-time access to and delivery of information.

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Achieve Business Flexibility

Create an integrated, agile software infrastructure for quickly responding to business needs:

  • Rapid delivery of new business capabilities
  • Reduce impact of business and technology changes
  • Protect investments while creating new functionality
 
Learn how the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Services is using Java CAPS to integrate and preserve investments in legacy systems to gain improved access to information.

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Gain Business Efficiency

Streamline, automate, and enable better tracking and visibility of your business processes:

  • Securely share business processes inside and outside your firewall
  • Bridge silos of data and ensure data integrity
  • Proactively manage business decisions with key performance indicators
 
Learn how Sun helped Vanco integrate data, automate complex business processes and workflow, and increase efficiencies.

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Before & After SOA

Before and After SOA

Before:
In traditional IT architectures, business process activities, applications, and data are locked in independent, often-incompatible "silos." Users have to navigate separate networks, applications, and databases to conduct the chain of activities that complete a business process. Independent silos absorb an inordinate amount of IT budget and staff time to maintain.

After:
A Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivers the data needed for business process activities as an integrated service. Users no longer have to log into multiple systems, search for relevant data, and integrate the results manually. The information appears as a single application, delivered on a single screen, all with a single login.


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