In the current business climate, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a potentially attractive solution for helping enterprises to become more flexible in achieving the vision of a collaborative and process centric organization. Designed from a services perspective and implemented as a set of loosely coupled systems, an SOA can help enterprises integrate disparate applications.

As you get ready to re-look at your enterprise IT infrastructure as part of your modernization exercise, with a view to enable business process flexibility at an incremental cost, Patni can help you with our spectrum of SOA consulting services.

Patni takes a structured approach to delivery, and draws on its years of expertise in architecture and design, skill-sets on various standards, technologies and platforms related to J2EE, .NET, Web Services, MOM, CORBA, Integration, BPM and Security, as well as industry domain knowledge to deliver high value to customers. Patni has developed migration methodologies, templates and an Enterprise Architecture Framework based on the Zachman framework, to move existing applications to a service-oriented model.

Our Service Oriented Architecture Offerings
Our SOA consulting offerings encompass assessment, planning, architecture design, development, implementation and governance.

SOA Strategy and Roadmap

• SOA assessment and strategy formulation
• SOA enabled Enterprise-wide Architecture Roadmap definition
• SOA Reference Architecture development
• Architecture review and evaluation
• Evaluation and suggestion of technologies/platforms for implementation
• SOA Implementation Planning
• SOA Program management and Governance setup.

Architecture Design

• Service Enabled Enterprise Architecture: Design the Process, Applications, Data and Technology Architecture
• Products and Solution Architecture
• Architecture modernization
• Reverse architecting

Prototype Development

• Develop prototypes for early validation of approach, architecture for non-functional requirements, identification and evaluation technology choices and implementation strategy.

Implementation

• Based on .J2EE, .Net, Web services technology ESB, MOM, EAI, Application server products and SOA tools.

Testing
The inherent complexity in Service Oriented Architecture implementations demands a detailed testing process which would include process, code and design reviews apart from unit and regression testing for processes and services with the help of integrated testing framework. Patni's SOA consulting strategy is as follows:

• Test through development
• Testing from service provider and consumer views
• Testing from different functional units - components, services, metadata, web services, business process and composite applications
• Automated, iterative and continuous testing of each functional unit at periodic intervals
• Automated scenario based testing for business processes.

Our Value Proposition

• Dedicated Architecture and SOA center of excellence, which keeps track of developments in SOA, skills on relevant standards and platforms, development of best practices, methodologies, frameworks and reference models.
• Domain expertise in Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecom, Retail, Energy & Utilities, Hospitality industries as well as e-Commerce
• Defined roles and track for technical and solution architects
• Information Security & Business Intelligence expertise thru dedicated practice groups
• Participation in standards organizations such as OASIS.