Aligning your Business and IT is key to survive in your market. It is not only important to do that faster, better and cheaper, evenly important is to stay in control. You need to transform your static and heterogeneous systems into highly flexible and interoperable systems. Noah’s comprehensive product capabilities help you with that, based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is being called one of the most significant technology shifts in the IT world since the rise of client/server computing.

SOA has the power to transform IT from a bottleneck and cost center into a key source of business flexibility and competitive advantage. But when implemented incorrectly, SOA can disrupt the business. Instead of becoming more agile, business could become more fragile.

To stay in control, you need more than the initial tooling and products, you need capabilities that manages the entire life cycle of your SOA solutions. Noah’s Product Capabilities can meet all your business requirements for now and in the future. It will place the business user back in the driving seat, it will simplify your business.

Manage the entire life cycle of SOA-based solutions

With the Product Capabilities of Noah, organizations can stepwise transform their IT existing assets, as well as the long-term life cycle of the entire SOA solution.

Noah provides the capabilities to:

• Model - Define and deploy business processes and workflows to achieve maximum productivity, flexibility and responsiveness throughout the entire enterprise.
• Harmonize - Create interoperability between IT systems and align them to defined business process and workflows by integrating them; bridge functional gaps by creating the missing functionalities.
• Operate - Use monitors to get direct insight in business activities and act based on alerts that are automatically generated when exceptional events occur.
• Adapt - Optimize business processes, workflows and applications to improve company performance and out-perform market dynamics.

SOA Enablement Benefits

One thing is certain in today's business world - change. SOA enabled applications will prepare both the IT department and the business decision-makers for rapid change. Some of benefits of moving to an SOA environment:

• Model - Define and deploy business processes and workflows to achieve maximum productivity, flexibility and responsiveness throughout the entire enterprise.
• Synchronize - Create interoperability between IT systems and align them to defined business process and workflows by integrating them; bridge functional gaps by creating the missing functionalities.
• Operate - Use monitors to get direct insight in business activities and act based on alerts that are automatically generated when exceptional events occur.
• Adapt - Optimize business processes, workflows and applications to improve company performance and out-perform market dynamics.

SOA Enablement Benefits

One thing is certain in today's business world - change. SOA enabled applications will prepare both the IT department and the business decision-makers for rapid change. Some of benefits of moving to an SOA environment:

• Increase revenue - create new routes to market; create new value from existing systems.
• Provide a flexible business model - react to market changes more quickly.
• Drive costs down - eliminate duplicate systems; build once and leverage; improve time to market.
• Reduce risk and exposure - improve visibility into business operations.

The SOA approach can bridge the gap between what you want your business to accomplish and the infrastructure tools you need to get there.

Decrease development and deployment cycle times by using pre-built, reusable services building blocks. Integrate across the enterprise-even historically separate systems-and facilitate mergers and acquisitions of enterprises. Reduce cycle times and costs by moving from manual to automated transactions. Make it easier to do business with business partners by increasing your flexibility.