Integration Competency Center

Today's businesses are highly dynamic and widely distributed, comprising multiple locations and geographies. Furthermore the event driven processes that fuel these businesses span the entire organizational domain. If these business processes are to be successful automated through Service Oriented Architecture. Then the underlying integration infrastructure must also be event-driven and able to distribute across the extended enterprise. Companies that fail to implement such an infrastructure will implicitly constrain their ability to realize the true benefits of SOA.

The Integration Competency Center enables organizations deploy enterprise application architecture infrastructure throughout the organization to provide the framework to base other IT technologies to enable business processes function as per the users requirements and leverage the flexibility, interoperability, and return on investment provided by the integration platform and solutions.

The infrastructure nature of SOA technology presents enterprises with a classical technology transfer challenge regarding ensuring it realizes maximum benefit from its infrastructure investment and proper usage. Answering these challenges requires a programmatic technology transfer approach termed as "who came before". Using such an approach dramatically reduces the learning curve for Center of Excellence . Through an Integration Competency Center , organizations can instill design and development best practices and mentor new initiatives so that each initiative "learns" from those integration project deployment.

Integration Competency Center is an umbrella organization having a knowledge engine and shared resource bringing together stakeholders, sponsors, business users, Project Managers, Business Analysts, interface designers, operations, Administrators and delivery teams on a common platform and provide.

• Developing Business cases, metrics for cost savings for using the proposed various approaches of usability versus traditional integration deployment approach.
• Enterprise Blue print and comprehensive back bone strategy
• Discussion group and brainstorming sessions and their record keeping
• Integration with Enterprise System management solutions.
• Experience and knowledge sharing.
• BPM/Workflow and BAM initiatives to have visibility throughout the environment
• Assessment of current architecture designs, practices, and processes
• Systematic approaches for capture and dissemination of best practices
• Standardization on software architecture and development methodologies and architectural frameworks extending/simplifying
• Implementation of software reuse strategies and processes
• JCA and JMS based Adapter Compatibility matrix and customized adapter development approach.
• Mentoring and knowledge transfer on best practices, methodologies and architectural approaches
• Business topology and legacy connectivity approach
• Ongoing review and guidance for individual projects