IBM SOA - People Entry Point

What is the people entry point?

Are your employees, partners, and customers enabled to take advantage of SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, to drive greater productivity and collaboration? People can interact with SOA-based business services and composite applications through an enabling framework of tools, and practices. The people entry point is a starting point for SOA, enabling people to interact with application and information services that support business processes. As a complement to the other entry points — process, information, reuse and connectivity—the people entry point can facilitate real time decision making and dynamic collaboration, and immediate execution. Overall, the people entry point approach to SOA drives business and operational flexibility and improves end-user productivity and collaboration.

The value of peopleEmployee productivity, operational efficiency and the ability to innovate on the fly are paramount to competitiveness and growth. Companies frequently struggle with siloed applications and information that prevent customers, employees, and partners from working together effectively. Empowering people through SOA solutions can bridge these challenges and provide a foundation for greater productivity and collaboration. Because people drive the interaction with the SOA services that execute business results, focusing on people is critical to the success of SOA implementations. The people entry strategy to SOA can help:

Accelerate productivityReduce costs for access to multiple applications and information sources.Reduce time to deployment for new services.Increase access to process flexibility and orchestration.Enable collaboration inside and outside the enterprise.

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