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Changing the way businesses think about IT
Today's businesses need a flexible IT infrastructure that supports change. To achieve this, many companies are using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach. This approach supports the concept of delivering IT as a service, where business processes actually drive the definition, creation and execution of these services. This ability to adapt and create services rapidly enables greater business agility. In essence, SOA shifts the way we think about traditional architecture. Bringing an end to monolithic application architectures, and the associated maintenance costs, is one of the underpinnings of service-oriented IT.
An innovative SOA approach from HP
HP delivers SOA as an architectural approach built upon the concept of SOA-based business and infrastructure services. This approach promotes the use of services that are loosely coupled, reusable, standards-based and well-defined. It enables services to be consistently developed, deployed and managed at a lower cost and with greater speed. HP believes that deploying an SOA is a journey that gradually transforms an enterprise's IT architecture, placing at its center business and IT services. SOA enables IT to become a strategic source of the services delivered to the company's customers in time frames required to lead the market and achieve the goals of the business.
HP leadership
HP's SOA offering is powerful; we bring breadth, depth, reach and choice to heterogeneous, multi-platform environments that are based on proven architectural capabilities and a choice of the leading technologies and middleware partners. Our professionals work to clearly understand your needs and then find the best possible solution for your existing heterogeneous environment. We won't try to force fit a proprietary solution that may not provide you with the desired flexibility and agility. In fact, HP is one of the only companies that can offer all the critical elements for successful planning, integration and management of an SOA implementation. The HP offering includes end-to-end SOA services; a broad choice of middleware vendors; management software, including HP OpenView SOA Manager; and world-class server and storage products.
A lifecycle approach
SOA can be part of a transformation that drives business and IT alignment within an enterprise. In order to adopt this transformation, you need an experienced partner who understands the transformational journey. HP is ideally suited to this role. Our ability to take an independent perspective allows our professionals to design a well-architected, secure, managed and governed SOA solution.
HP SOA Services
With HP, enterprises can start an SOA implementation at different entry points. Depending on your SOA maturity, HP will start with one of the following services:
- HP SOA Envisioning service--helps business and IT to develop a strategy for the enterprise.
- HP SOA Assessment service--only available from HP, this service utilizes the HP SOA Agility Assessment, our SOA domain model, and our SOA maturity model to develop a comprehensive roadmap to guide the adoption of SOA across your enterprise.
- HP SOA Governance and Architecture service-- establishes an SOA Governance Program Office and an SOA Architecture Management Office to oversee your enterprise transformation.
- HP SOA Enablement service--prepares the infrastructure for readiness of an SOA implementation.
- HP SOA Service Development service--helps define, develop and deploy SOA business and IT services across your enterprise, line of business, department or project.
- HP SOA Software Development service--provides volume and scale in the development and delivery of business and IT services to improve deployment team productivity.
- HP SOA Management service--helps enterprises gain control of SOA adoption with management support that includes lifecycle management, services management, monitoring, auditing, analysis, servicelevel agreements and policies.
HP OpenView SOA Manager
HP OpenView SOA Manager delivers out-of-box management and control of the risks inherent in service-oriented architectures, helping you achieve your expected ROI. As a critical component in the HP SOA Management Service, HP OpenView SOA Manager not only monitors the health and performance of web services, it also models the relationships between all the components in your SOA--and the business services they support--so you can truly understand the business impact of all the components.
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