The Projects Office

Today’s Projects Office is charged with:

• On time delivery
• Risk minimisation
• Productivity and efficiency
• Integrated analysis, design, development and deployment
• Project governance
• Re-use.

The relevance of the SOA Gateway:

• Affects project delivery time
• Reduces a large chunk of risk around integration effort
• Facilities ease of access - legacy data available using a standard URL
• Supports integrated analysis, design, development and deployment
• Legacy data is published in the form of a software contract that can become part of project documentation
• Supports re-use of resources preventing replication of effort across projects.

Relevant SOA Gateway features:

• Eclipse-based development. Ability to interface with any existing or emerging technology that can use Web Services
• URL based access: once the developer is given the URL for the configured resource, they can see what data is available to them and how to access or update this data
• Control: provides a standard software 'document' format that will not change unless the DBA changes it
• The configuration information can easily be copied from environment to environment using Eclipsed-based tools
• WSDL: The SOA Gateway publishes the interfaces to the legacy data as a unique WSDL. This WDSL can become part of the project governance
• The SOA Gateway provides the ability to register the services it exposes in a UDDI registry. This can then be used by a project office to make all parts of the organisation aware of what resources are available.

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