SOA/SaaS Assessment
Deep Understanding - Organizational Readiness

This engagement provides a deep understanding of your organization's ability to take advantage of service-orientation to reduce costs, increase productivity and escalate competitive advantage.

 
 
Why is it important?

  • Before achieving successful service-orientation you will need to have in place certain processes and practices.

  • This requires a foundational methodology for delivering solutions to meet strategic goals and tactical plans.

  • We will evaluate your current processes and determine how you can begin to use the  CDR™ , a methodology for successful adoption and long-term benefits for both business and IT users.
 
Who should be concerned?

CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, CFO, President, Owner, Division President, Managing Director or Partner wanting to understand their ability to take advantage of service-orientation and start getting their service automation portfolio organized and understood.
 
What are the objectives?

We will be providing you an "Organizational Guide to SOA Readiness" including a walk up the Service-Oriented Maturity Model and discovering your need for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), what the first steps you need to take to get started and how to move forward.

Current State

  • What is your current architecture?

  • What processes, tools and applications are you using to effectively meet your business objectives?

Application Candidates and Migration Analysis

  • What applications currently exist and what state are they in?

  • Are they candidates for SOA? What applications can be migrated? What applications can or need to be built?

Skill Set Evaluation

  • Do you have the right individuals and do they have the right skills?

  • What team structures do you have in place and do they have the right mix of individuals?

Proposed State

  • What do we recommend and what would your organization's automation environment look like in a service-oriented world?
 
What does the engagement look like?

Week 1

  • On-site
    • Conduct interviews.
    • Analyze architecture, processes and tools.

Week 2

  • On-site
    • Complete week 1 analysis of architecture, processes and tools.
    • Conduct interviews.
    • Evaluate and analyze skill sets.

Week 3

  • Off-site & on-site
    • Analyze information gathered.
    • Create proposed state.
    • Report to management.
 


 

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