Integration strategies

In today's environment organisations build linkages or used adapters that require custom code development to access legacy data across multiple platforms.

Leading experts describe the time to access and use the data as the Achilles heel of current SOA initiatives. In the above configuration there are significant costs involved in:

• Designing and coding interfaces
• Designing and building a server program capable of handling multiple requests from different clients
• Testing the entire configuration and then monitoring and maintaining the solution once it has been deployed.

Current Integration Strategy

This strategy is:

• Expensive to build
• Expensive to license
• Expensive to maintain
• Risky during implementation.

The SOA Gateway Strategy

The SOA Gateway allows an organisation to access its data at a reduced cost and effort.

This solution removes the need for the complex and expensive requirement to build server code to access each element of legacy data required for a given project.

Through the implementation of solid, SOA-based standards, today's application programmer does not need to learn another interface to access the data. The cost of getting to the legacy data involves a simple configuration exercise in the SOA Gateway to make the data available.

This approach:

• Reduces custom code development work
• Reduces license costs
• Reduces maintenance
• Minimises legacy access risks
• Productised what was previously man weeks or months of development effort.

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