Organizations vary tremendously in their purpose, scope, size, structure and community. Nevertheless, careful study of their underlying information technology presents a broad set of common concerns and requirements, such as the need to align IT with the organizations missions and objectives, IT governance, providing competencies and abilities to share information and collaborate effective and efficiently. NARACSOFT answer to these requirements is what we call an “Adaptive Enterprise” (AE).

The Adaptive Enterprise is NARACSOFT vision of an organization in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. The Adaptive Enterprise helps companies lower IT-related costs while making IT flexible enough to deliver what they really need - simplicity, agility, and value. An Adaptive Enterprise enables companies to achieve a tight coupling between business and IT so they are able to quickly and easily respond to change, helping to maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance and increase agility.

The Adaptive Enterprise design principles: simplification, standardization, modularity, and integration, along with the key architecture design rules- service-oriented architecture (SOA), virtualization, and model-based automation. HP uses these principles to drive technology decisions that give sustainable and practical value.

“SOA” is arguably the most recognizable acronym in IT these days. This is because Service-Oriented Architecture has the potential to enable a much higher degree of business agility by transforming enterprise IT based on a service-driven delivery model. NARACSOFT Adaptive Enterprise visualization methodology provides a practical approach for developing an SOA implementation roadmap that focuses on mission critical process and provides the organization agility to collaborate and share information in a secure manner.

IT organizations experience a range of challenges as they move from tactical Web services to enterprise SOA and business services. These challenges involve build-, deployment- and run-time issues. Some of the challenges introduced by an SOA are business service security, business service governance and auditing, service level compliance and business service life cycle management.

Critical success factors for an SOA implementation that alleviate and mitigate the challenges include defining coarse grained services and agile, loosely coupled business process. Furthermore, there is a need for SOA governance which provides a set of solutions, policies and practices which enable organizations to implement and manage an enterprise SOA. It is the SOA governance which makes it possible to realize ROI and the business benefits of loosely coupled services.

Finally, for any federal organization compliance with the five Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) reference models is a mandatory requirement. The six layers of Adaptive Enterprise map directly to the FEA reference models, their by assuring compliance with all federal mandates and regulation to accomplish mission critical objectives.

SOA promotes loose coupling of software resulting in services that are easier to integrate as they utilize lower-cost tools and have standards based exchange formats and interface. Some of the key benefits that an enterprise can achieve from SOA are:

• Agility to collaborate – SOA provides ability to securely and easily share information, with partners and stakeholders by presenting a standard coarse grained service which any authorized business partner can use, there by extending the enterprise.
• Agility to adapt – SOA promotes the ability to rapidly reconfigure the business process by selecting from the available set of services, thereby providing the agility to adapt to the business requirements introduced by stakeholders and business partners.
• Reduction of cost - SOA primitives are standards based For example, WSDL, SAML, SOAP & UDDI, providing a modular architecture, thereby enabling sharing and reuse of services.
• Improvement in efficiency - SOA promotes a modular enterprise, promising a high degree of reusability of business services, ensuring consistency.
• Better business operations - SOA based services enable a common architecture and approach to be pervasive in an enterprise containing heterogeneous legacy systems.
• Ease of introducing new technologies – SOA’s coarse grain modularity allows enhancements to service by introducing new more efficient technologies as they are introduced without actually changing the service interface.