SOA
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) lets car manufacturers and components suppliers turn their software infrastructure into a toolbox: monolithic and rigid structures become flexible and configurable services. These can then be linked with each other in any manner that is necessary via defined interfaces. This allows automotive companies to adapt their IT to suit their business processes quickly and efficiently.
Cirquent implements the development of SOA – competently, professionally and reliably. We are well-versed in both the functional and technological aspects of SOA. With this expertise we help our customers get the best out of service-oriented architecture.
SOA – many benefits for car manufacturers and components suppliers
Efficient processes for a new business area? Extensive re-design of existing workflows? Not a problem with SOA: the individual services are combined with each other in such a way that the required process is mapped. Reusable services and processes really speed up time to market – automotive companies can respond quicker, which makes then more capable of acting.
Read more about how automotive companies benefit from SOA
An SOA solution enables software for change: Car manufacturers and components suppliers can respond to changing market conditions more flexibly with SOA. By reusing the services SOA follows the principle of industrialisation – actually a contradictory requirement. However, an SOA solution resolves the contradiction between agility and standardisation.
SOA implementation is not dependent on the use of specific platforms or programming languages. Consequently, companies retain full flexibility in the design of their IT landscape. They also save costs in maintenance and development: the implementation details are encapsulated behind defined interfaces. This considerably reduces the complexity of the IT landscape, which simplifies IT management.
Cirquent – from concept to rollout
Cirquent handles all the tasks associated with developing SOA for its customers – from anchoring the SOA in the entire company to planning and using the architecture. No matter whether the solution is to be implemented top-down, derived from the IT strategy or bottom-up via pilot projects: Cirquent develops the most appropriate implementation strategy for an SOA solution. We often start SOA initiatives with a pilot project. The aim is to verify tools, procedures and the architecture in a manageable framework – based completely on the motto "Think globally, act locally". When the pilot project has been completed successfully it is iteratively extended by more services and developed into a company-wide solution. Suitable governance structures ensure its sustainability.
