Is your company in a position to respond quickly and flexibly to today's business challenges? Or is ICT holding back changes in your business processes? New integration architectures make it possible to innovate and implement changes faster. So that you become more responsive and competitive. Ordina offers vision formation and roadmap services for setting up the appropriate integration technology.

Globalisation, increased competition and technological progress compel you to change your products and business processes faster and faster. The Internet has created a global market in which differentiation is more difficult. Your customers are self-confident and critical. They weigh up price and quality carefully, and purchase via new channels. Mergers and partnerships are daily news. Regulation requires far-reaching changes in the way your business is run, and in IT. Margins are being squeezed.
Is your company in a position to respond quickly and flexibly to these challenges?

 

Companies are always looking to standardise their processes, achieve operational excellence, flexibility, supply chain integration and outsourcing. But improving business processes is not enough. Often the supply of information inhibits changes in business processes. Often, this is so intertwined with the underlying systems that they are extremely difficult to change. The countless linkages between systems make it even more difficult. Data and operating software have a redundant presence in different systems, resulting in inconsistencies. Interfaces with customers and partners require time-consuming coordination of semantics and technology. Introducing new systems is an onerous task.
In other words: adapting systems is expensive and labour-intensive.
Unless you design your supply of information in a fundamentally different way.

The mature web technology and the advent of international standards have focused attention on Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). With SOA, you set up the supply of information so that you can make changes to your processes quickly and flexibly. The functions and data of applications are contained in services. You call them up from any environment, irrespective of the platforms or programming languages used. By arranging services in the right sequence, you support your business processes optimally - with functions and data from your own systems and your partners' systems.

 

With SOA you make amendments to your business processes faster. In this way, you become more responsive and competitive. Functions and data become re-usable. Platforms and applications can be consolidated. This gives you a handle on your total ICT costs.

 

Introducing SOA is not simple. Many managers are wrestling with questions like:

The new integration technology is complex and requires highly-qualified specialists. However, technical issues are not the key to success. A careful introductory approach is the key - driven by business requirements and with attention to changes in the organisation. A holistic business case is required, with a clear consideration of the benefits and costs. The implementation must occur step by step, with projects where process improvements and services generate business value.

 

Ordina offers you services across the whole SOA spectrum:

Ordina uses state-of-the-art integration technology from the following market leaders: