Business expects from IT more speed, flexibility, and responsiveness in application delivery. To increase the benefits that organizations derive from their IT investments, they are envisioning SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as a mean to provide flexibility in their IT systems.

To provide effective benefits, MEGA approaches SOA from the perspective of an Enterprise Architecture project. This conjunction brings to the organization an opportunity to understand both business and IT company assets and use them as inputs and drivers for establishing objectives and roadmaps.

To achieve the business – IT alignment promised by this approach, MEGA consultants relies on four pillars:

• A clear understanding of business requirements based on business process mapping
• A modular, service-based view of the IT architecture
• Specific criteria for grouping services in autonomous but collaborative domains or areas
• A target for the future of the IT Systems, and milestones to reach the target

The business-driven SOA approach proposed by MEGA is based on identifying services and interaction protocols in relationship with business objectives and business functions. It is articulated in two main phases, preparation and implementation, and ensures a progressive adoption of SOA across the entire IT landscape through a continuous improvement cycle.

MEGA provides dedicated tools and methodologies for SOA implementation and organizes all description assets in a shared repository. MEGA ensures the design of your business and IT architectures, leveraging on service orchestration to build new applications. MEGA provides links with the development environments and workflow systems through the appropriate support of web service standards such as WSDL and BPEL.

By bridging the different analysis perspectives in a common Enterprise Architecture framework, you can develop an architectural vision and carry it out over the long term.