Service Oriented Architecture


Sun SOA Consulting Services Offerings

Sun's consulting experts can help you explore your SOA options, assess your environment for adopting an SOA, create a detailed plan that meets your business and technical requirements, and achieve implementation success. Services include:


Pilot Project
Help get your SOA implementation underway with a pilot project. Pilot projects help enable you to properly assess and implement a subset of your business requirements without a commitment to larger IT investments. It is an excellent way to get started on the road to SOA.
SOA Jumpstart Workshop
Introduces you to SOA terminology, technology, standards, and principles to understand the impacts on your business of implementing an SOA. Helps prepare both business and technical teams to adopt a new services oriented approach to delivering business services.
SOA Opportunity Assessment
Provides an overview of benefits, best practices, guiding principles, methodologies, technologies and standards for adopting an SOA. Generates a set of tactical and strategic recommendations and a roadmap for the effective adoption of SOA in your organization.
SOA FastTrack
Helps customers new to SOA gain proven skills and best practices, and establishes an implementation plan, architecture, common services, and a solid development platform to jumpstart your first SOA project.
SOA EnterpriseExcel
Similar in scope to the SOA FastTrack service, this service supports a broader SOA project rollout and will help educate, prepare, and mentor your team for successful delivery of your first SOA project.
SOA Center of Excellence
Provides the vision and framework to build an SOA Center of Excellence in your organization, allowing you to capture, leverage, and re-use architecture framework guidelines, operational and governance best practices, and integration processes.
SOA Governance Solution
Provides the next pragmatic step to accelerate an SOA through delivery of a flexible and fully customizable framework for governance, monitoring, and lifecycle management of services. Helps define SOA governance policies and procedures for your organization.
Go-live Certification
Helps to provide assurance that your SOA implementation is ready for deployment, down to the smallest details. Sun experts will review and certify your deployment architecture that covers both functional and non-functional production requirements.
Common Services Framework
This framework provides bundled, common best-practice services for enterprise-wide error, exception, and alert management. Such framework can save several months of design and development effort, and can help enable your team to stay focused on your business requirements.
SOA Repeatable Quality (RQ) Methodology
SOA RQ Methodology provides an iterative and incremental approach to discover, enable, and realize SOA. RQ Methodology combines the best of Rational Unfied Process (RUP) and Extreme Programming (XP) techniques to guide the entire SOA lifecycle implementation.
Solution Accelerators
Solution Accelerators are designed to expedite your project implementations. By providing you with pre-built frameworks and applied methodologies, you will save time and reduce costs while lowering project risks. Available Solution Accelerators include Transaction Control Manager, Master Data Management, RFID Foundation, and Packaged Integration (SAP, Oracle, Siebel, and Mainframe).
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite 5.1 Migration Assessment: A Pragmatic Approach
Provides an overview of migration opportunities that exist in your environment and generates a solid set of recommendations for an effective and streamlined migration to Java CAPS 5.1
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite 5.1 Performance Tuning Service: A Pragmatic Approach
Provides a prescriptive set of performance tuning recommendations specific to the areas of improvement identified within your runtime environment
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