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SOA continues to gain in popularity. There is a growing trend away from one-stop-shop packages to custom software. More and more companies are building solutions that are specific and strategic to their business needs. Organizations have found that they had to customize the off-the-shelf products and that these applications were unable to support cross-functional business processes. Combined with budget constraints, enterprise executives are now also challenged to do more with less. They face application and business process development complexity, inefficiency, business process friction, and IT user experiences that sap energy from the business and the bottom line.
SOA continues to gain in popularity. There is a growing trend away from one-stop-shop packages to custom software. More and more companies are building solutions that are specific and strategic to their business needs. Organizations have found that they had to customize the off-the-shelf products and that these applications were unable to support cross-functional business processes. Combined with budget constraints, enterprise executives are now also challenged to do more with less. They face application and business process development complexity, inefficiency, business process friction, and IT user experiences that sap energy from the business and the bottom line.
By adopting a service approach coupled with custom development using open source, companies' IT departments are able to deliver SOA-enabled applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.
As the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, that’s what Red Hat delivers – from the operating system through multiple middleware products to rich, dynamic user interfaces, all with the lowest total cost of acquisition and ownership in the industry.
Development complexity
Developers face too many different and complex development frameworks that require them to write code to bridge the programming models. This complexity slows application development and business process automation, resulting in increased costs and lost opportunities.
A standards-based programming model to assemble SOA components and Web 2.0 applications reduces developer complexity with dramatically less coding--increasing productivity, accelerating time to market and reducing development and run-time errors.
Low resource utilization
Most IT environments require purchasing additional hardware for new applications while installed hardware runs at 5% to 10% utilization. Low utilization adds hardware and management cost and complexity to IT operations.
Virtualization optimizes hardware utilization, enabling services, and multiple business processes to maximize hardware resources. Red Hat's JBoss SOA components seamlessly leverage the benefits of OS virtualization, helping customers reduce costs and refocus resources on the applications and business processes automation that differentiate their business.
Business process friction
Business processes often run much less efficiently than they should due to friction caused by manual steps, awkward inter-system communication, and inability to manage rapid change. Business process friction saps a businesses' ability to differentiate and compete.
SOA enables flexible and reusable services that can be rapidly deployed and modified to relieve business process friction, improve business agility, and accelerate time to deliver on business requirements. But SOA can be an expensive and complex proposition. Red Hat removes the complexity and expense with an integrated, modular, open source SOA platform with a lower total cost than the commercial alternatives.
Inadequate user experience
Users, whether internal or external, deal with the arcane presentation of information and response options that are out of context in their everyday work interactions. This lack of context and personalization of information drives lower user productivity and increased error and cost.
Rich Web 2.0 interfaces coupled with personalization technology improve the productivity for users of SOA-based, automated business processes. Businesses providing the best user experience will have a competitive edge. The Red Hat SOA platform includes tools and frameworks to easily develop rich interfaces that maximize the business process user experience.
Red Hat collaborates with the community to deliver enterprise-class software that puts customers in control, delivering enterprise-class services and support to redefine SOA to what it should be: Simple, Open & Affordable.
Simple: Simple-to-procure and easy-to-consume open source platforms, frameworks, and component architecture; enables developers, ISVs and enterprises to rapidly and easily create solutions that deliver tangible, measurable Service Oriented Architecture benefits.
Open: Management and deployment flexibility that offers more value, freedom and personalization of the solution; standard-based products and customizable architectures.
Affordable: Enterprise SOA deployments realize greater value by eliminating expensive license fees; High quality developer and production support delivers a rewarding deployment experience and superior customer satisfaction.
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