SOA Gateway Product Overview

The SOA Gateway delivers access to your data across multiple platforms with no additional custom programming.

The solution enables access to all data and applications on those platforms using:

• Industry Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards
• A unique back-to-front approach to SOA legacy integration.

The solution has been developed to:

• Reduce time to access legacy data
• Increase re-use of legacy data and information across organisations
• Eliminate the need for custom code development every time the business needs to access a new piece of data
• Avoid the expense of replicating legacy data and business logic.

Leading industry analysts, such as Datamonitor and the Standish Group , describe the time to access and use legacy data as the Achilles heel of current SOA initiatives.

"The chasm between data and logic explains why 70% of integration project costs stem from manually implementing data manipulation." - Enabling the SOA Enterprise, Datamonitor 2004.

By exposing existing data and business logic using industry SOA standards (SOAP, WSDL and REST) the SOA Gateway offers 'out of the box' connectivity to legacy resources.

The SOA gateway can be installed within hours. This assumes programming languages used (Java, .net-based languages on Windows, PHP, Perl, Ruby on rails, XML-SPY) can consume a Web Service.

The SOA Gateway makes legacy data available using a standard URL. You can view a technical overview of this here. This enables browsers, Word, Excel, etc, to access resources without any additional programming.

Once granted permission, the user has the ability to send a URL to business colleagues who can then click on the URL to retrieve real-time data directly from the legacy resource.

The SOA Gateway also enables BPM suites to access and use data and information resources directly from the Enterprise Services Bus (ESB). These include:

• Websphere BPM from IBM
• CrossVision from Software AG
• AquaLogic from BEA
• BizzTalk from Microsoft
• CapeClear.

There is no additional custom programming required. This is achieved with no client installation or footprint where the BPM software is running. This means:

• Less testing
• Less maintenance
• Less time to install.

See also:

• Current Integration Strategies
• The SOA Gateway Strategy.

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