Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Today’s CIO is charged with:

Aligning technology and business objectives
Ensuring the organisation has flexible architecture development and information management
Organisational efficiencies and automation
Governance
Improving productivity
Translating technology into tangible business value
Maximising investment in exiting technology.

The relevance of the SOA Gateway:

Makes corporate software assets available as re-usable components immediately
Ensures data and information control and security
Facilitates new product and service delivery, allowing IT to focus on system delivery instead of data and information access
Eliminates prohibitive costs of moving data.

Relevant SOA Gateway features:

The use of standards throughout the product ensures the value of software assets into the future
The SOA Gateway provides standard interfaces to all aspects of the server ensuring seamless integration with other products
As all the data is exposed in a similar formats, such as XML documents, the process of controlling access to the data and logging becomes simpler as only one format is required
The product enables direct access to the data from the client or service that is using the data. As there are no hardware or software pieces in the middle, there are less pieces to monitor and therefore it is easier to find fault lines.
The product removes the requirement to program server-side code local to the data, which is expensive to implement and expensive to maintain
IT departments can focus on creating the IT system to solve the business need instead of having to worry about how to get at the various sources of data that may be required by the system
The existing platforms and software used by an organisation were chosen for good reasons that are likely to still hold true today. The SOA Gateway helps re-use, it is not a solution that advocates rip and replace.