Consulting Services
One Source, Many Solutions
How can we deliver the right solution to the right clients with a miriad of viable canned
applications and a diverse number of consultants with custom solutions?
With The Downing Group Business Processiong (TDGBP) we utilize the standard methods of discovery during the interview process to become familiar with your day to day activities in order to determine the proper course.
Once the several courses are selected, we endeavor to determine the amount of effort to implement "out-of-the-box" solutions as opposed to customized solutions. From this selection we determine
which course most fully meets the need of the customer balancing the best of breed overall implementation.
87% of CIOs sited Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the "the next big thing" in enterprise software. Complex distributed IT resouces are a mainstay of business today. Because of
implementing best of bred solutions, platforms need to be far more agile and aligned in order to enable flexibility and adaptibility to meet the company's ever changing
business needs. SOA must bridge the gap between heterogeneous systems in order to equip the IT resources with the ability to develop new applications quickly and easily as well as
provide process owners with the tools to make decisions daily.
- Customer Relationship Management: - The sweeping universal trend that provides for a solid implementation of the next-generation CRM is integration , integration, integration. As the business environment becomes focused on anticipating and addressing customer needs - companies must have cross-functional process integration. The keys heare are consistency and simplicity.
- Supply Chain Managment: - With a host of products for every task from forecasting and purchasing to warehousing and shipping coupled with countless vriations in the terms; this, by definition, means automation must process across multiple user types and functional areas. A company's ultimate success depends on its ability to rapidly and cost-effectively collect, organize, and analyze data and disseminate information through out the supply chain.
- Enterprise Resource Planning: - Each ERP application has its own architecture and level of comlexity which means you can never approach the implementation of ERP packages in the same manner. Implementation strategies must be carefully considered and points of integration must be clearly researched and identified if the application is to do what it is meant to do.
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Recognizing SOA's Value
Service Oriented Architecture is a discipline as well as a methodology. There is no "One Size Fits All" solution. However, there are standard practices that can be utilized to render the best overall results.
SOA's value comes from understanding the business need and the deparate systems that need to be bridged. The strength of SOA can be found with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The Downing Group
can help maximize the use of your current tools as well as implemnt proven methods and solutions for bridging the great system divide.
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Understanding the role of SOA Infrastructure
A SOA infrastructure is an ecosystem of products and services that work together to enable service oriented systems. This is known as a service platform. A service platform must be created to host
serivce agents and to expose legacy resources as services. Download this white paper to find out more about ESB and SOA.
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Picking the Right Tools
Before selecting an ESB or an SOA you must understand that no one product is going to address all of your organization's integration requirements. The Downing Group can help you define your
project's requirements and your strategic goals. We can then embark upon evaluating the SOA/ESB options based upon those requirements.
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