Symphony Services can help you take full advantage of the flexibility that a service oriented architecture (SOA) promises – flexibility, agility and reusability. However, while conceptually SOA is a very elegant and seamless, many have found that the path to a successful SOA strategy is anything but.

Accelerating SOA Adoption

Symphony Services is helping some of the largest ISVs integrate SOA into their product strategy. Symphony uses a simple 5-step process to accelerate SOA adoption:

• Executive Briefing: Education & evangelism of stakeholders regarding SOA value proposition, governance, current trends in the market. Request an Executive Briefing from Symphony today.
• SOA Readiness Assessment: Quantitatively defines the organization’s current and future capability to deliver and sustain SOA-based products. The assessment takes place over 3-4 weeks and includes face-to-face meetings with key stakeholders to understand the company’s business goals and documentation of current organizational processes and technology characteristics. Request an SOA Readiness Assessment from Symphony today.
• Architecture & Roadmap: Building on the results of the assessment and with a clear understanding of the underlying business context, Symphony will develop a client-specific SOA Reference Architecture with a supporting SOA Maturity Model, to systematically enable an organization to achieve the business values of SOA over time.The detailed roadmap will encompass overall effort estimation and phased delivery approach.
• Build & Deploy: Symphony can create a dedicated, custom-built team to execute on the product roadmap, migrating code and data schema and testing the services to ensure compliance to SLA’s and transition your organization from non-service oriented to service oriented systems.
• Operate & Sustain: Centered around quality assurance activities to enhance quality, governance over new service introduction and evolution to ensure prevention of service incompatibility and creation of rogue services. For Software as a Service and other web based delivery platforms, Symphony also monitors software operations and provides a closed loop feedback system between development, support and application operations teams.