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Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Services

CPSI provides strategic value to organizations in the process of enhancing their Enterprise Architecture (EA). We offer a full range of enterprise architecture services, from strategy consulting through final implementation:

• Strategy Consulting- CPSI helps customers align their business strategy to the appropriate EA by identifying key business drivers and translating them to a technology blueprint. This strategic plan can be expanded to include data and application architectures as well. After defining requirements, CPSI maps them to various technical paths and organizational models to develop a strategic vision for enterprise computing. Typically, the strategy identifies the current and likely future requirements for the enterprise architecture, technical and organizational issues that must be addressed to optimize performance, and the approach for enhancements to support business needs.

• Architecture Design- CPSI then translates the EA strategy into technical design requirements. We assess the economics of established versus emerging technologies, adjusted for technical and market risks. The proposed architecture is usually presented as both a conceptual and physical model that optimizes performance. Performance is measured by factors such as investment expense, operating cost, system availability, and the degree to which the enterprise architecture can support both existing business strategy and be adapted to sustain emerging trends.

• Operational Assessment- CPSI conducts both audit and risk studies that include a comprehensive analysis of capacity, performance levels, and contingency and security plans. We then use these assessments to identify various technical and organizational issues, rank those issues, and propose mitigation strategies.

• Implementation - We can support implementation engagements from providing expert advice to customers throughout implementation, to managing detailed migration and roll-out strategies on your behalf.

At CPSI, out team of industry and technical consultants works closely with our clients to prove how rapidly they can move from evaluating the potential of business process transformation to realizing business value through process improvements, cost reduction and revenue growth.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a set of principles and guidelines that inform the planning of enterprise architectures and the design, development, and integration of enterprise software. In an SOA, common business operations are exposed as services that are consumed by other systems and aggregated into new applications. The services may be within the company or provided by business partners. Conversely, the services of the company may be consumed by clients or business partners.

The guiding principle of an SOA is the encapsulation of business functionality as a component along wiht the exposure of that compinent as a service that can be accessed by any consumer. While components, services, and most of the underlying technologies are not new, the application to enterprise architecture as embodied in SOA is new. A critical component of SOA is the use of standards-based technologies. By forsaking proprietary protocols, data formats, and programming interfaces, components running on heterogeneous platforms can interact with one another. By maintaining a simple binding and protocol, services can easily be wired together.

A company begins adoption of an SOA by partitioning its business functionality, as manifested in its technical assets, into discrete, reusable components. As the technical infrastructure is split and repackaged into an SOA, a company can realize a number of benefits:

• More flexible and responsive IT infrastructure
• Faster adaptation to changing markets
• Reduction of spiraling IT integration costs

By its nature, an SOA can be adopted by a company in an incremental manner. In doing so, a company can quickly enjoy the benefits shortly after the process begins rather than wait until the adoption is complete.

Through careful analysis of the business, a company can determine how best to partition its processes so that they are exposed as services in an SOA. With a thorough assessment of their system portfolio, a company can make informed decisions on the best approach for an SOA roadmap, which platforms to keep, which to replace. Appreciating the complexity facing companies, CPSI has put in place offerings to assist companies in this process. CPSI has solutions that:

• Assess the current readiness of the staff, technology, and process in the enterprise for SOA adoption
• Strategically plan for SOA through development of a roadmap
• Develop an Enterprise Architecture that incorporates SOA principles
• SOA enables existing systems or develop new systems based on SOA principles

In the last step CPSI's team of industry and technical consultants assist you in implementing an SOA in your organization.

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