The SOA solutions from MW2 can help you improve IT flexibility and performance as you organize business tasks as a set of reusable services or elements.

SOA: A driver for better alignment between Business and IT

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) helps you align IT with strategic objectives, addressing key drivers and realizing a business-based return on your technology investments. Develop a more dynamic IT infrastructure SOA leverages existing technology so you can build, change or extend business applications quickly and cost-effectively. First, you turn business processes into discrete, loosely coupled services, which each fulfill a specific function. Then you combine these services into applications that support key business needs. Return on investment is more quickly realized because you’re assembling services, instead of hard-coding new functionality. And these services are modular, so needed changes are fast, localized, and consistent across the enterprise.

• Help ensure SOA readiness and effective, efficient SOA management.
• Provide business flexibility to enable rapid changes.
• Allow the reuse of IT assets while establishing a more flexible and robust infrastructure.
• Reduce complexity by organizing your IT infrastructure into a set of services.
• Accelerate the changes to services or underlying capabilities with minimal disruption.
• Improve processes and functions to increase delivery and market impact.

SOA Pilot
MW2's Pilot takes an individual project which is designed to demonstrate to your organization the value and flexibility provided by going to a SOA enabled architecture. MW2 will work with your company to identify a project in a single service area, enabling that service via SOA.

If you are considering or have decided to move to a SOA architecture, let MW2 partner with you to show you how our industry-leading methodologies, accelerators and SOA consultants can

• Shorten development time
• Lower development costs
• Reduce the risk of project failure  

Comprehensive SOA Project
As a full service industry-leading SOA consulting organization, MW2 can provide your organization with SOA specialists, program management, methodologies and SOA accelerators, allowing us to effectively deliver SOA projects adding significant value to your organization.

By building upon the SOA Architectural and Process Alignment Assessment, and the SOA Pilot, MW2 will develop a comprehensive plan and roadmap to work with your organization to develop and deploy your service oriented architecture. This will allow your organization to achieve the value and benefits of rapid process adjustment, partner integration, and reduced development and maintenance costs.

MW2 SOA BluePrint
MW2's SOA Blueprint enables businesses to leverage industry best practices, cut the cost of integration, and deliver business functionality much more rapidly than previous approaches.

The SOA Blueprint is a roadmap for business and IT alignment that fosters enterprises to embrace governance and reusable business services within their environment. From this blueprint MW2 has created a step-by-step methodology that encourages an organization to view itself as a series of business services, these services being supported by a dynamic set of business processes enabled via a reusable catalog of IT services.

MW2 has applied its SOA Blueprint to traditional CRM, Content Management, eCommerce, ERP, and Mergers & Acquisition projects. Achieving Higher Returns on Your IT Investments by applying MW2's industry leading SOA Blueprint MW2's unique composite application delivery approach enables rapid business service assembly, consolidation of business processes, and shortened deployment time so organizations can realize more agility and profitability.