SOA/SaaS Pilot
Escalating Opportunities - Gaining Experience

This engagement is intended to prove the viability of using Advance™ to fully implement a Dynamic Service Enablement Platform.

  • The result will be a fully functional set of services that are completely managed by the GateKeeper.
  • These services and their corresponding components will provide enough information to make a determination regarding the continued use of Advance™.
 
Why is it important?
  • As with many endeavors getting started correctly is paramount to ensuring that your end results meet your expectations.
  • If you do not do the right things at the right time and get the right individuals involved you will surely be wasting valuable resources.
  • This is why we start at the bottom of the Service-Oriented Maturity Model and tackle the strategic goals by implementing the tactical plan of performing a pilot.
 
Who should be concerned?
CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, CFO, President, Owner, Division President, Managing Director or Partner wanting to move their organization into benefiting from a service-oriented environment and start moving their organization up the Service-Oriented Maturity Model.
 
What are the objectives?
While this is a pilot, because it will be completed using the Advance™ GateKeeper, it does not mean that it is considered "throwaway" but rather "progressive" with the ability to move forward into a production system through your defined work flows.

Strategic Goals
  • A simple quick win project that provides enough evidence to show short-term value with long-term vision. 
  • You do not have time to waste going in circles, doing endless analysis, running into roadblocks or getting the wrong people involved.
Tactical Plans
  • Selected functionality that garners enough value to merit creating a proof of concept but not so large that it overwhelms your success.
  • The pilot exploits a few services that can be tied to existing back-end system.
  • May also be coupled with business logic extracted out of code to allow business professional management.
  • Here you start gaining experience to take you forward.
 
What does the engagement look like?

Week 1-2

  • On-site
    • Conduct interviews.
    • Analysis of architecture, systems, business objects and logic.
    • Service/system definition.
      • Sufficiently understand the domain.
      • Determine which service(s) and system(s) to implement that will meet all the goals of this pilot.

Week 3-4

  • On-site
    • Complete service/system definition.
    • Service/system implementation.
      • Use the GateKeeper to design and create the system(s), object(s), logic and service(s).
    •     Design and create a Web-Based thin client to consume and expose the service(s).

Week 5-6

  • Off-site & on-site
    • Complete service/system implementation.
    • Demonstrate the pilot.
    • Report to management.
 


 

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