What is Service-Oriented Transformation?

Service-Oriented Transformation is the process by which your company becomes capable of offering and accessing online business services within the Business Web. SOT incorporates and extends classic Business Transformation practices.

With the adoption of key technologies, business managers can plan and manage SOT initiatives, visually model dynamic business processes, and annotate the returns-on-investment, outcomes, and costs. Traditional business transformation tasks, such as organizational change management, skills development, and outcomes assessment, are increasingly automated and integrated within the SOT process. New business process modeling tools support the paradigm of organizational units as discrete entities responsible for full customer care for their targeted constituencies.

Service-Oriented Transformation is a reorientation of business planning processes made possible through the deployment of new service-oriented integration infrastructures. All services undergo codification into discrete units that share identical integration points, such as security, management, and identity. These discrete services can then be seamlessly accessed, delivered, and combined into new services. Third-party services can also be integrated with comparative ease. A robust SOA deployment usually leverages the features of an Enterprise Service Bus which homogenizes the integration, access, and delivery of internal and external business services.