Freedom OSS is the leader in practical SOA solutions. We help companies achieve the flexibility they need with SOA by providing them true business integration from our team of experts. Freedom OSS solutions have helped many Fortune 1000 companies drive more value and increase ROI within their enterprise.
In dynamic business environments, it's crucial for organizations to quickly embrace change. Freedom OSS architects combine our professional expertise with a practical approach, helping move your company into a new era of growth. Our skilled industry teams are available to address your most complex technology challenges and turn them into opportunities.
SOA Governance
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance insures enterprises achieve the highest value from their SOA systems. Organizations must recognize the benefit of a governance structure to implement an effective SOA function. True SOA governance empowers enterprises to reuse assets that were not included in the initial plan. This process transitions the flexible SOA system into the results-based governance to help your organization attain better business results.
During implementation, SOA continuously presents new challenges while streamlining your business and IT functions. Because of the flexibility that SOA facilitates during implementation, organizations must establish a framework of practical SOA goals. The Freedom OSS SOA Governance system insures that your SOA is managed to comply with standards, policies and guidelines, but remains flexible enough to stretch creativity without damaging the SOA fabric.
Freedom OSS assists in choosing the proper management team and clearly defines roles and responsibilities to promote efficient collaboration. Our approach is to build high-level guidance, resulting in performance metrics that will be clearly articulated to your organization and showcase the full benefits of service orientation.
SOA Governance provides the following key benefits:
- Eliminates service duplication and service sprawl
- Provides sufficient knowledge of available resources and their reuse
- Communicates best practices
- Achieves greater ROI from IT/SOA investments
- Measures the effectiveness of your SOA system
Business Rules Engines
Business Rules Engine (BRE) technology enables enterprises to define and maintain their business policies and practices without programming. Businesses now have the ability to specify rules and constraints based on company strategy, their partner's strategies and customer requirements.
Implementing BRE technology offers the opportunity to capture, manage and execute your business rules outside of its application using a separate interface - providing simple, fast modifications - reducing deployment costs and increasing ROI.
Freedom OSS insures an efficient BRE execution by combining rule types and processing approaches. At Freedom OSS we apply the full capacity of an inference engine with the implementation of dynamic business applications. In addition to procedural rules, our system offers change-aware declarative rules, used only when fundamental data actually changes.
- Additional benefits of the Business Rules Engine includes:
- Achieving quicker turnaround times with self-managed system
- Simplifying your routine manual processes into streamlined functions to save time and money
- Easy to update and maintain system in a dynamic environment
- Capacity to build a vocabulary of your individual company terms
- Ability to express your knowledge in a web environment without using IT language
Enterprise Service Bus
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solution provides a fast, cost-effective method of business application integration. The systems delivers flexibility and promotes reuse of applications.
Businesses can expect to improve ROA and ROI, reduce operating costs, improve flexibility, provide optimal customer service and accelerate access to information through the Enterprise Service Bus.
Benefits of using ESB include:
- Rapid distribution of information to all facets of your business
- Faster and less expensive accommodation of existing systems
- Increased flexibility, easily adapting to your dynamic business environment
- Zero down-time as incremental changes are applied
- Message delivery even when systems or networks aren't functioning
- Effective monitoring and managing of IT operations
- Reduced investment risk by enabling incremental deployment
Freedom OSS offers a variety of ESB options including JBOSS, Apache, Open Source, IBM, iWay, Sonic, TIBCO and BEA.
Business Process Management
Companies face many challenges in today's market, including ineffective business processes through lack of interoperability between human workflows and system processes as well as current business processes restriction to their application environment. The lack of real-time visibility blocks the insight to measure process performances, hindering the chance to optimize business operations.
To remain competitive, it's crucial for companies to manage and optimize their everyday processes. Business Process Management (BPM) is a well-respected solution for transforming business plans into IT structure; however, most BPM solutions are complex, with high development and deployment costs, as well as ongoing costs for maintenance.
The BPM systems are designed for easy implementation and maintenance, regardless of your current system. Our flexible solution enables you to define standard company-wide business processes and enables your employees to implement industry best practices into your enterprise.
A simplified design enables easy deployment with multiple users. Freedom OSS uses BPM systems to constantly monitor your execution process, insuring desired financial and operational results. Your organization can now focus on results-based management, not modeled theory.
The keys to BPM are efficiency and flexibility. Enterprises can easily accommodate changes stemming from competition, statutory, regulatory and political changes and dynamic market conditions. The flexible system accommodates continuous changes necessary to optimize operations.
Portal
Portal solutions are a critical element in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. With the use of portals, businesses can gain competitive advantage by quickly adapting to changes, streamlining business and IT goals and creating effective partnerships with employees, customers and vendors. Portals are used to optimize your system to align with your business strategy. Benefits of portal technology include:
- Reducing deployment costs by unifying authentication, profiling, and availability of resources and management of applications.
- Facilitating simple management of new Web applications, allowing users to make effective changes and improvements to their system.
- Speeding new application development.
- Shortening response time to business requests.
Portal solutions provide control to the end-user, resulting in the ability to quickly address problems, create an agile business environment and achieve greater ROI.
Canonical Models
Integration using EAI Middleware, application servers, B2B hubs or Service-Oriented Architectures delivers rapid connectivity, but can also complicate existing problems. Meta-data management can manage applications more efficiently, but seldom encompass the entire integration. Business standards implemented as messaging formats or "canonicals" are difficult to implement and to update in a dynamic business environment.
While middleware, meta-data management and messaging standards play crucial roles in successful enterprise integration strategy, they can't overcome the challenges presented by manual integration design when deployed in a traditional approach. Traditionally integrated systems are time-consuming to implement and expensive to maintain.
To obtain a successful integration strategy, enterprises must accommodate a variety of Middleware, enable meta-data management capabilities that span multiple technologies and provide flexibility in applying business standards. This strategy will reduce incremental costs, reduce deployment time and increase flexibility.
To achieve this goal, organizations must successfully manage four aspects of integration design including:
- Dynamic -responsive to message iteration, application versioning and changes in your organization's and your partner's information and organization chains
- Semantic - focused on the meanings associated with data in documents, not the representation.
- Canonical - expresses judgments on the importance of business information pieces
- Model - an abstraction representation of an object, process, system, or information used to improve communications between all stakeholders, improve design quality, and reduce development and maintenance costs.
Freedom OSS has successfully defined and implemented canonical enterprise models in early strategies of application integration, providing the ability to accelerate development, increase flexibility, and reduce total costs. In short, these are the keys to designing a strategy that encourages and engages business process owners in the quick and affordable development of networked processes. XML based canonical models are Freedom OSS's preferred model representation.
Message Oriented Middleware
Freedom OSS implements message-based communications protocol because of it's ability to store, route or transform messages in the process of delivery. MOM systems provide persistent storage to back up the message transfer medium. Both sender and receiver do not need to connect to the network at the same time (asynchronous delivery). It is particularly useful when dealing with intermittent connections, such as unreliable networks or casual users. Should the receiver application fail for any reason, senders can continue functioning unaffected, as the messages they send will simply accumulate in the message store for later processing.
Middleware messaging can deliver a single message to more than one recipient (broadcast or multicast). With intelligence, MOM can transform messages en-route to match the requirements of the sender or recipient. Additionally, one application can send a message in its own format, and two or more other applications may each receive a copy of the message in their own native format. Freedom OSS Architects will carefully select and customize your particular MOM product to suit the business requirements for your operating systems and protocols, local resources, CPU cycles and processing power.
SOA Quality Assurance
Implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a complex process. Streamlining old and new technologies forces project managers to identify in advance any potential risks and prepare appropriate solutions. SOA Quality Assurance Testing is a key element in validating security, reliability and compliance of your SOA system and preventing errors prior to the deployment stage.
Freedom OSS makes quality assurance and testing processes a priority in your organization's SOA implementation. Our team uses agile SOA development processes to turn problems into opportunities. We prepare to easily leverage existing systems and applications in response to your dynamic business environment. Our testing methodology results in faster time to market with minimal defects, resulting in increased ROI.
- Freedom OSS SOA Quality Assurance Testing:
- Improves productivity and faster time to market
- Enhances security from unauthorized users
- Reduces costs by creating and reusing test assets
- Ensures adherence to standards and best practices
- Prevents errors before deployment stage
- Ensures quality, reliability and interoperability of your Web services
Freedom OSS considers all phases of the development lifecycle and automates quality assurance and testing early in the process to provide greater benefits to enterprises and their SOA systems.
Data Management & Virtualization
Freedom OSS has extensive expertise in practical implementation of Metadata management solutions. By leveraging MetaMatrix Data Services platform we help customers in various verticals such as government, publishing, financial services and others to bridge the gaps between diverse existing data sources and new forms data required. Freedom OSS has successfully demonstrated the value of Metadata management by drastically lowering the TCO of data maintenance. Freedom OSS leverages following MetaMatrix tools and components:
- MetaMatrix Enterprise Designer
- MetaMatrix Enterprise Server
- MetaMatrix Repository
- The MetaMatrix Console
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