New IBM Software and Services Accelerate Business Use of Service Oriented Architectures

New IBM Software and Services Accelerate Business Use of Service Oriented Architectures

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced its most extensive lineup of new software and services for building and expanding a service oriented architecture (SOA). The new offerings, based on IBM’s experience with nearly 3,000 SOA customer engagements and 2,500 business partners, will help clients efficiently and quickly deploy SOAs.

The new software and services focus on four key areas: the use of business process management (BPM) to exploit benefits from SOA; governance as the cornerstone of SOA success; preparing IT infrastructures for SOA; and creating industry-specialized SOA services. In total, IBM is announcing four new and 23 enhanced products and 11 new professional services offerings. IBM also announced the results of a study by the Institute for Business Value entitled, “The Business Value of Service-Oriented Architecture.” According to the study, 92 percent of IBM SOA customers started with SOA to reduce costs. Additionally, 51 percent of customers saw revenue grow because of SOA.

“SOA is a fundamental shift in technology that will continue to significantly impact business,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president, IBM Software Group. “With the early adopter phase behind us and SOA software capabilities deemed as table stakes, the next logical evolution in this market will be ensuring that vendors and customers have the resources and skills available to make the most of their SOA investments.”

Helping to Ensure BPM Success with SOA Companies use business process management software to better manage, monitor and improve business processes to drive innovation. However, the true value of BPM is delivered through the combination of software and services expertise based on efficiency, reuse of existing assets and flexibility. This strategy enables customers to facilitate business innovation in the BPM lifecycle of business modeling, collaborative development, business monitoring and continuous process improvement within a flexible architecture that can easily adapt to planned and unplanned changes that impact business.

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