Soft savings when implementing SOA

Many organizations forget the soft savings that can be achieved by implementing a standards based SOA. ‘Soft’ savings are savings that are difficult if impossible to measure, however, with a standards based SOA there are many such savings that can be made.

A well implemented standards based SOA can deliver Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) with what used to be called OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP) levels of service. This meant with green screen applications that it generally took less than a second for a response to be received once the enter or other interrupt key  was hit on a terminal. Consider early and current GUIs where response times can be measured in tens of second providing ‘delivery times’ more than ‘response times’ ?

It is well known that after a certain amount of time waiting, the operator of an application will lose concentration on the job in hand and thus will lose productivity.  Implementing a SOA can deliver the responses you need to keep your employees more productive and happier in their work. Nothing can measure this.

Implementing a standards based SOA introduces well designed structures for an application such that each piece of a process and where it is accomplished is well know. Each piece can feed information to monitoring tools so that when failures occur, they can be fixed very quickly if not before people notice due to the monitoring of the application. This leads to less down time of applications and again improves the productivity of the various processes in an organization.

Our final example is the potential to actively monitor what services are used most often, at what time and by whom. This sort of information can be invaluable for tracking where there may be problems in your business processes. While these processes may have been working for years, it may be possible to determine ways to improve them from the usage of the services. Improved business processes again lead to improved throughput and productivity for an organization. The SOA Gateway is the perfect tool to help you achieve soft savings such as these and others.