The Seros Advantage: Architected Composition of Open Standards and Products that makes Service-Oriented Architectures Affordable, Vendor Neutral, and Interoperable.
The Problem with most SOA Implementations: Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture promised to bring many business values to organizations, including:
improved access to information, and
large scale information movement technologies
fast implementation of dynamic business processes.
Unfortunately, many of the promised benefits have been hard to realize. In large part, this is due to the complexity of early SOA product offerings, sometimes referred to as “SOA Monoliths”. These offerings provide tightly coupled capabilities requiring specialized professional services from the product vendor to effectively utilize their capabilities. In general, the SOA Monolith approach has increased architectural costs, architectural complexity, and an organization’s reliance on specific product vendors without realizing the promised benefits.
A Faster and Less Expensive Approach to SOA: Organizations are now focusing on a new approach that embraces open standards, open source products, vendors that perform specific (but not monolithic) functionality, metadata strategies based on business domain vocabularies, and building partnerships. Essentially, this is a commoditized approach to SOA core enterprise services allowing the specification and implementation of reference architectures that allow for a low cost, modularized building block approach to SOA infrastructure. This provides a highly vendor neutral approach without sacrificing capabilities.
How Seros Helps Organizations Realize the New Approach: Seros provides a set of affordable and extensible Product Suites. Seros offers solutions and services across the entire spectrum of SOA maturity -- from organizations that are just beginning their planning for a SOA implementation -- to organizations that have made SOA investments and want to preserve these investments.
The Seros Product Suites:
Are delivered as a set of open standards based, collaborative web services that provide an alternative to a single vendor, “SOA Monolith” approach.
Provide a Design Pattern based framework with a high degree of flexibility in SOA product choices (vendor or open source).
Significantly improve interoperability between the chosen best-of-breed/best value products.
Incorporate metadata standards and automated publishing to enable large scale data standardization, visibility, and accessibility.
Provide precision, business vocabulary based search capabilities across federated data sources.