A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the desirable enterprise architecture that integrates all business services within the IT architecture and exposes them with well-documented interfaces.
One of the primary benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the ability to share and reuse services and components. SOA requires a clear and clean design in order to make business services reusable. This is achieved by adopting an approach compliant with the
Model Driven Architecture
(MDA) that drives the development process towards SOA. The
MDA approach makes all services platform-independent, which means reusable across known and not yet known communications protocols that the IT department adopted or will adopt.
Finantix Studio enables to develop with an MDA approach because it packages methodologies, languages and tools that help engineering components and services that are reusable at technological level and – most important – at business logic level. Hence, business services are:
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accessible through any protocol (e.g., SOAP and CORBA) |
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able to run on any IT platform, which means on any operating system, application server, database, architectural frameworks and so on
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fully documented through functional documentation and technical descriptions such as XML Schemas and WSDL files |
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modular because rely on configurable components that can be tailored together in new ways to meet new purposes
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able to interface any external service through the concept of Business Connector available on standard technologies
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Several benefits come with the adoption of the Finantix
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agility in remodeling business processes for adapting products and services to the changing business vision |
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flexibility to support multi-channel services to customers through channel-specific components that lie upon a common business model which is the core of the business logic
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ability to collect data about enterprise business operations to lead business practices according to the concept of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) |
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