Saarbrücken, 05 de Marzo de 2008 .- The structure and management of a business process-oriented service landscape requires close cooperation between specialist departments and IT within companies. IDS Scheer has used its expanded methodology for Business-Driven SOA to develop comprehensive support for describing, planning and managing services — designed specifically for this cooperation. The new methodology is based on the OASIS SOA Reference Model, meaning that services are categorized using business criteria and the materials available are concentrated to focus on those services with the greatest strategic importance. Risks within SOA projects are minimized as a result.

The aim of SOA projects is to make companies more flexible so they can react efficiently to changes in the market. This can now be achieved directly without moving from pillar to post because the development and management of the services used work in conjunction with the relevant business unit. The technical specification of individual services within an SOA is a new feature. It ensures continuing provision of target-oriented service development in IT and subsequent service reuse.

This methodology is fully integrated into ARIS SOA Architect. Existing models for describing IT landscapes and web services can be reused, thus securing investments and enabling service orientation and Enterprise Architecture measures to be brought together.

ARIS SOA Architect reduces implementation costs considerably because redundant implementations within a service are compiled, thus producing an efficient service architecture. If a service fails, alternative implementations can be identified with ease.

Dr. Wolfram Jost, Member of the Executive Board with responsibility for Product Strategy and Development of IDS Scheer comments: "So in the end ARIS SOA Architect ensures that there is an overall business-oriented approach. Service descriptions are now purposely aimed at the requirements of specialist departments and organization experts, who can now assist in the design of the service-oriented company and realize the full potential of a SOA. SOA is becoming a key driving force for the sustainable improvement of a company's entire business performance."