With everyone talking about SOA, architects are refocusing efforts to define the services of various application systems - but how do you do this without intensive business process modeling sessions with stakeholders?

In modernization initiatives, to consider implementing service oriented architecture (SOA), architects first have to figure out what those services are! This means an intensive modeling effort: taking stakeholders into a room and grilling them - OR - use StereoLOGIC® to extract this process and data model from the existing systems. Instead of months of process modeling, and maybe or maybe not getting sufficient detail to know how services are constructed, imagine spending most of your time moving forward the SOA initiative - building out the reference architecture and solution architecture.

Most enterprise architecture strategies start with grand plans and frameworks which will model the integration of all the enterprise service applications. These rapidly degrade to simply trying to focus on the existing flow of new development initiatives, or building a model at such a high level of abstraction that it has limited utility. Architects are often not in a position to enforce the discipline of capturing a comprehensive process and services model. Imagine changing this?

Using StereoLOGIC, Enterprise Architecture initiatives are no longer confined to very general level understanding of an application and its services. The EA initiative can fully model ALL the processes covered by an application with minimal disruption of the stakeholder community. This means - a more complete understanding of the existing applications - more complete understanding of interdependency - and an ability to better evolve the architecture.