Service-Oriented Architecture

During lab phases two, three and four, the company dedicated extensive efforts and investment to study and build representative use cases based on integrating different legacy and new-generation software, integrating critical functionalities such as:

• Metadirectory

• Role-based access management
• Network identity
• Single Sign-On
• e-Business portal
• IP accounting
• IT inventory
• IT fault correlation
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)

All these technologies are crucial for the integration and management of SaaS applied to various industries (e.g., retail, banking, Government and service providers). Lab efforts were devoted to:

• Development of service-oriented object libraries based on emerging standards to create enabling components and services;
• Design of solutions to key SOA problems: a) security, single sign-on, portal, and network identity; b) VPN, IP accounting, virtual storage, configuration management and QoS; c) lightweight application integration, messaging and Business Process Management (BPM); and, d) appliance for network-edge services;
• Compilation of an extensive knowledgebase of standards, technologies and product offerings;
• Joint work with R&D allies for the planning and development of SOA applications to simplify the complexity of turnkey SaaS applications.