AGILEPOINT UNLEASHES YOUR SOA REPOSITORY

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has many benefits, including clean boundaries, contractual interfaces, simple discovery, and ease of reuse.  But if you really want a high return on your SOA investments, then you need “last mile” SOA delivery.  Specifically, you need to expose your SOA assets for easy reuse to non-technical and semi-technical users.  There are clear advantages to giving your power users some power, and your knowledge workers the ability to truly leverage what they know.  But how can this be accomplished?  AgilePoint is the key to “last mile” value delivery for SOA.
AgilePoint provides a number of flexible options for exposing your SOA assets to non-IT staff through process models. 

1. You can reference web services directly from business process models—quickly mapping process variables to parameters in the web method.
2. You can create a model with one or more web services—a service-oriented application model—and then let that model\ be consumed as a subprocess in an unlimited number of business process models.
3. You can create custom components to wrap your services for reuse--AgilePart components for tasks or AgileWork components for automation.
4. You can create versions of service-wrapping components for specific divisions or departments, adding property names that make sense in that line of business.

Now that you have empowered non-technical users to consume your services, you can explore the many additional SOA-related benefits of AgilePoint.

• AgilePoint will manage and maintain state in the process, allowing you to create more stateless services.  Statelessness is becoming increasingly important as organizations look to move some of their services to internal or external cloud or utility computing platforms.
• AgilePoint allows quickly model service-oriented applications that can contain both internal and external services. This is an efficient way to integrate and bundle SaaS offerings with internal SOA assets.
• AgilePoint allows you to move instance-specific logic into your model, keeping your services generic.  These practices maximize service reusability and simplifying maintenance by separating logic that is more likely to change frequently from service logic that should change rarely.
• AgilePoint automatically provides an audit trail for service use, and can be used to quickly implement SOA asset utilization tracking.

If your organization is like most, then your SOA repository has tremendous locked up value that could and should be more accessible to the business.  AgilePoint provides that vital “last mile” platform for value realization.  Let your services truly serve your organization.  Unlock their value with AgilePoint!