Software AG and alfabet announce joint technology solution for end-to-end SOA planning and governance
Published: 3/15/2007
- alfabet joins the CentraSite Community as strategic sponsor
- alfabet’s planningIT product analyses how efficiently an enterprise’s IT infrastructure supports its business strategy, processes and operations
- planningIT also provides an IT impact and cost analysis for introducing business process change
- With Software AG’s Crossvision Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite this transparency in IT planning is extended to the full SOA lifecycle
- Software AG and alfabet will jointly present the details of this solution at the CeBIT 2007 conference in Hanover, Germany March 15-21
Software AG and alfabet today announced a cooperation to provide end-to-end SOA planning and governance. In addition, alfabet has become a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite Community. Through its participation in the CentraSite Community, alfabet can help companies successfully design, implement, manage and govern a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Specifically, alfabet’s planningIT product allows enterprises to perform top-down planning by providing a multi-layer view of a company’s IT assets: from business processes, organizational structure and software applications to the systems software and IT server infrastructure. This highlights how efficient and cost effective the IT infrastructure is in supporting business processes and strategy. It also provides an impact and cost analysis for the introduction of any necessary changes. CentraSite, jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu, operates on planningIT’s planning decisions for service design, implementation and deployment in a runtime environment. After service deployment, reporting facilities track the status, usage and impact of any change to services. This information is returned to planningIT to ensure that the central SOA planning and governance effort is supported by current and complete data.
In implementing advanced Service-Oriented Architecture solutions, enterprises are challenged by many issues: the full integration of existing applications and systems, restructuring the organization into business domains, identifying SOA-relevant business services, composing SOA processes and measuring SOA performance. Enterprises realize that their SOA efforts will provide a significant return on investment when basic enterprise architecture and SOA governance procedures are firmly in place.
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