All organizations want to save money on their processes so that they can provide the same level of service to their customers at less cost. In addition, in the area of IT, companies would dearly like to have consistent costs associated with their IT projects. Implementing a standards based SOA can address both of these issues.
Most informed commentators would agree that up to 70% of the cost of medium to large scale projects is taken up integrating with existing systems or simply accessing existing data. This is because people continually build and implement proprietary integration software using Messaging Oriented Middleware (MOM) or other home grown solutions. This can be very expensive as it involves developing code on the back end system and on the front end and can cause major project delays into the bargain.
There are now products available that help you to implement a standards based SOA which makes your existing applications and data available using a configuration process. This takes up to 90% of the integration cost out of a project directly while also making the real data and applications available in days instead of weeks or months as occurs with traditional projects. This delivers hard savings in the project management and integration areas.
In terms of consistency of cost, this approach also delivers an ability to know how much it will cost to use more of such products. In other words, when it is necessary to integrate with newer applications or reach new sets of data, the cost can be calculate based on the license cost of the tool involved.
The fact that services created in this way can be reused leads to saving again and again thus increasing the Return on Investment (ROI) over time, improving the speed at which your projects can be completed and enabling the costs of your IT projects to be determined with far more accuracy and confidence. The SOA Gateway is a product that can help reduce integration costs and give consistent costs for future integration projects.
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