Service Oriented Architecture

Economic forces and accelerating change are driving the need for flexibility and re-use, and IBM System p™ servers are excellent IT building blocks, allowing clients to develop Web Services and other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. SOA-based open architectures have the potential to deliver unprecedented degrees of IT flexibility. Companies can select different entry points to exploit service orientation principles, such as Web Services, and the selection of an environment that easily integrates across the enterprise can help unlock the full potential of SOA. SOA project implementations can deliver superior value when coupled with System p, leveraging key attributes associated with System p5™ servers—virtualization, reliability, performance and applications support.

Highlights

SOA solutions for System p5 servers allow you to . . .

Improve operational efficiency leveraging server and IBM System Storage™ virtualization, allowing less LAN, SAN and server IT infrastructure
Lower total cost of ownership by deploying System p5 quad-core servers
Improve customer retention via the high availability and RAS features of System p5 offerings
Leverage the performance benefits of System p5 servers to improve employee productivity
Address new markets and improve employee access to information with our expanding number of System p applications

Featured solution

System p Configurations for SOA Entry Points
The new System p Configurations for SOA Entry Points combines the best of IBM server technology with IBM’s SOA software to make it easier to deploy new systems in an SOA Infrastructure. This powerful combination will help clients adapt to business change with a flexible infrastructure, reduce IT costs, increase quality of service and simplify the utilization of system resources.

Solutions

IBM System p5 for SAP’s Enterprise SOA
System p, System Storage and DB2 have teamed together to create an integrated offering to support SAP's Enterprise SOA adoption program, a formalized—yet flexible—methodology designed to streamline and simplify the move to enterprise SOA.

IBM System p for WebSphere Application Server
This solution brief describes how SOA project implementation can deliver superior value when coupled with IBM System p servers for WebSphere Application Server, leveraging key attributes, including virtualization, reliability, performance and applications support.