ScaleFocus- Business Analysis in SOA and Integration Projects
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The document discusses the importance of business analysis in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integration projects, emphasizing the challenges caused by rapid business changes and increasing IT complexity. It outlines the role of business analysts in facilitating project delivery and optimizing costs, while also highlighting the benefits of SOA such as improved flexibility and reduced vendor lock-in. The presentation concludes with a focus on creating reusable services and advocating for a flexible architecture to achieve business goals.
ScaleFocus- Business Analysis in SOA and Integration Projects
- 1. Business Analysis in SOA and Integration Projects Viktor Bilyanski Chief Technology Officer viktor@scalefocus.com 13 February 2014 Sofia Copyright © 2012, Scale Focus AD, www.scalefocus.com
- 2. About ScaleFocus • Premier Bulgarian IT services company › › • Headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria Office in London, UK Professional specialization › › • Consultancy, architecture, software development, and maintenance Staffing and outsourcing Outstanding technical and business team › Over 80 professionals • Won 2 Forbes awards for client policy and business development • Customer Base in 12 countries › 2 www.scalefocus.com EU, US, Canada
- 3. Viktor Bilyanski Bio • 15+ years IT experience • Managed, consulted, architected many IT projects in Bulgaria, Europe, North America and Middle East • CTO of ScaleFocus • Excited about innovations • Love sports 3 www.scalefocus.com
- 4. Agenda The Problem SOA and Business Analysis Integration 4 Business Analysis and SOA www.scalefocus.com
- 5. The Problem • Business is changing and evolving faster than ever • IT systems are in every single business nowadays • The trend will continue in the future • IT complexity is increasing 5 www.scalefocus.com
- 6. The Problem: Business is changing FAST 6 www.scalefocus.com
- 7. The Problem: Facts “50% of the overall project time is spent gathering, elaborating and communicating product requirements” • Standish Group, Chaos Report “71% of the projects fail in time and budget as a result of poor requirements management” • CIO Magazine 7 www.scalefocus.com
- 8. The role of the business analyst Business analyst is a Role, it is not a Position! 8 www.scalefocus.com
- 10. How SOA can help business • What is SOA: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a software design and software architecture design pattern based on discrete pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications (Wikipedia) • Benefits: › Speeds up business changes › Optimizes costs › Improves the time to market › Provides enterprise flexibility › Prevents vendor lock-in › Facilitates the enforcement of SLA and OLA › Enforces consistent security model throughout the enterprise 10 www.scalefocus.com
- 11. SOA continued SOA is NOT: • WEB services • A middleware product • Only technical/IT initiative 11 www.scalefocus.com
- 12. Tightly coupled vs Loosely coupled 12 www.scalefocus.com
- 13. The Value of SOA 13 www.scalefocus.com
- 14. How to get there? 14 www.scalefocus.com
- 15. Business Analysis in SOA - Goals: • Understand the business • Facilitate project’s delivery on-time and on-budget • Reduce waste • Abstract backend system specifics • Improve efficiency • Document the right requirements in the right way 15 www.scalefocus.com
- 16. Business Analysis in SOA - ROI • Creating a service is an investment, which has to pay back - not everything make sense to be created as a service • Strive for reusability, this is one of the main business values • Advocate for flexible, reusable architecture • Explain technical impact to business people and business impact to technical people !!! 16 www.scalefocus.com
- 17. Business Analysis in SOA • Incremental improvement • Cost benefit analysis • Standardization and reuse • Start with the most volatile areas 17 www.scalefocus.com
- 18. ScaleFocus - IT Solutions for sustainable growth Premier consultancy Innovative services Process excellence Business solutions Multinational clients Software development 18 Outstanding team Customer-centric delivery www.scalefocus.com
- 19. Questions? Devotion to excellence and bringing you value … Viktor Bilyanski Chief Technology Officer viktor@scalefocus.com phone: +359 24 24 64 84 19 www.scalefocus.com