The architecture of any system has a significant impact on the system's ability to meet a companys' ever-changing business needs. Therefore, the architecture must be able to support current and future business needs in a cost-effective and timely manor.

In an ever-changing business climate, the chosen architecture must allow for easy adaptation/migration to meet new business needs in a timely. As the company's information and number of users grow, a scalable system's performance will remain the same.

The Internet or Intranet provides a common portal for delivering legacy system content in a standard platform. Service Oriented Architecture infrastructure provides an effective channel for porting legacy data to the web. SOA supplies services over the web using technologies such as XML, Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration(UDDI).

Web Services also provides a distributed computing technology for revealing the business services of applications on the Internet or intranet using standard XML protocols and formats. The use of standard XML protocols makes Web Services platform, language, and vendor independent, and an ideal candidate for use in EAI solutions.

Web Services eliminate the interoperability issues of existing solutions, such as CORBA and DCOM, by leveraging open Internet standards - Web Services Description Language (WSDL - to describe), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI - to advertise and syndicate), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP - to communicate) and Web Services Flow Language (WSFL - to define work flows, not yet a W3C standard).

Information Portal would like to help you determine which architecture best suits your companies current and future needs.