Cicero Technology / Cicero SOA

Cicero and Service-Oriented Architectures

A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) encourages the creation of loosely coupled business services through the integration of disparate applications, regardless of underlying technologies. This leads to greater systems flexibility, quicker time-to-market of new business functions, lower costs, and ultimately, a real competitive advantage.

Cicero helps build and deploy SOAs in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost. Instead of spending years rewriting applications to conform to a new architecture, Cicero enables an enterprise to start receiving full benefits of an SOA without a change to the existing core systems.

Web Services is a core component of an SOA, but is virtually unknown in any applications or systems created only a few years ago. With Cicero, these systems can become full participants in the modern world of loosely-coupled, distributed service providers and consumers. What’s more, Cicero delivers this power with a set of development tools that are as easy as “point-and-click”.

Quantifiable business benefits of deploying Cicero as a key part of an SOA include:

  • Increased business effectiveness
  • Higher customer satisfaction
  • More revenue per customer with greater customer loyalty
  • Increased staff productivity and job satisfaction
  • Greater and more sustainable competitive advantage built on a deeper integration of applications, processes, and people
  • Reduced business and IT costs related to application integration
  • Improved operational productivity across discrete business units
  • Faster, more effective integration of disparate IT and business environments, especially where M&A is involved
  • Greater organizational agility

A Cicero-enabled SOA can also be justified by the significant impacts it will have on IT productivity: reduced application development with more flexible and cost effective design and deployment methods. An SOA can help increase business flexibility and improve competitive position. Realizing business value through Cicero/SOA yields a number of important benefits in these areas:

  • Technical and operational flexibility
  • Leverage existing assets for IT transformation
  • Service-Oriented approach to integration
  • Exposing and connecting new services with existing systems
  • Exposing modern, open interfaces on top of core systems
  • Minimal-effort, non-invasive integration

SOA’s are strategically positioned at the intersection of business and technology to enable enterprises to adapt quickly to changing environments. A Cicero-enabled SOA allows the IT department to keep pace with fast-changing business imperatives as it automates business processes by abstracting the process from the underlying application and systems.

If you would like additional information on how Cicero can support your Service-Oriented Architecture environment, please contact us at 1-866-538-3588.