SOA ROI: FASTER, PROVEN—WITH THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY

Executives rarely dispute the essentials of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as they seek the holy grail of business agility. In fact, businesses that have adopted the right SOA Governance Model and started their SOA with the right tooling are experiencing significant business agility breakthroughs: returns on their SOA investment is visible in months rather than the traditional enterprise initiative timeframe, measured in years.

The technology for SOA is maturing and most applications are clearly headed the SOA way, the challenges of establishing best practices and effectively governing SOA still stand – many enterprises are still struggling to come to terms with the organizational and cultural changes that the SOA approach demands. Top analysts have stated emphatically that without appropriate Governance while developing SOA or other enterprise solutions executives run an 80% risk of failure.

A key accelerated risk of SOA project going off track is no clear or supported Governance Model that drivers the business goals, principles, processes and effective policies to enforce the benefits of SOA or any other technology. While adding an industry recognized Governance Model alone will ensure the project achieve a working SOA, Governance Model's are not a one size fits all in today's global multi-domain enterprise and a slapped in Governance Model may not support growth long term.

THE "RIGHT STUFF" FOR FASTER SOA ROI

Clearly, the right SOA Governance is the energy accelerating visible and strategic business change within the enterprise. In fact, this repeated proof of near-term return on investment through a strong Governance model is one solution to significant Return on investment long term.

But the key to receiving optimal—and faster—breakthroughs is making the Governance model fit your organization's maturity by assessing the existing people, processes and policies for change. A CTGS Governance Model is defining by hands on Strategic Governance modeling those efforts that work and fit into your current organizational maturity and defines step-by-step requirements for achieving a ROI Governance Model™ that leveraged you business very best people, process, policies and performance metric.

How can you achieve on a significant ROI now, begin to get the benefits, and build a solid foundation for future SOA growth and escalating benefits? Start Today

ROI Governance Model™

Getting the mix of Governance right isn't obvious or easy. Today's extended enterprises are distributed. Business processes execute across functions, organizations, and geographies and involve suppliers, partners, and customers. In the middle of this struggle the enterprises are an array of numerous challenges in people, budget, and heterogeneous it platforms.

Our ROI Governance Model™ focus the best of what's out on the market today, combining best of breed and best of cost from Gartner, Forrester, IBM, Oracle and many of industry leaders in today's market. We have found that no one Governance Model can successfully driver change while driving return on investment. The ROI Governance Model ™ drivers Governance through four Principle Domains and a comprehensive ROI Governance Domain to ensure performance, profit and success are measure and enforced.

The key imperatives to a successful Governance Model is to unite the people, processes, policies, performance and required technology and keep them working together through incentives that target business goals or objectives, yet make them flexible and responsive to changing business needs. In other words, you need optimal processes and policies —to be able to govern functionality from the existing IT environment, including silo'ed legacy systems, and to be open to business and IT evolution tomorrow. Since business change is now the norm, and adapting to change is critical to winning, you need strong Governance and business process agility to support the goals of the business.