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When it comes to IT services, BEA Inc. says it's a big supporter of the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle.
The very practices that help transform the physical habitat, could also work wonders for the enterprise IT environment, the San JOse, Calif-based company says.
And the way to ensure IT adheres to three Rs is to be found in three magic words: service oriented architecture (SOA).
SOA defines a software model in which loosely coupled software services respond to the requirements of business processes and software users. Resources are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation.
At an SOA governance seminar event in Toronto yesterday, a BEA executive outlined the positive impact SOA technology can have on the business.
Implemented properly, SOA can provide substantial savings for businesses, said Jay Holmstrom, director of technology at the Great Lakes office of software firm BEA Systems Inc.
He said those savings come from eliminating the need to recreate existing services when they are required by a business unit.
Holstrom said in most cases companies have hundreds of services residing on their system and keeping track of all these is often difficult and time consuming.
It is not uncommon for IT departments to develop a service for one business unit, without checking if the same service or something similar already exists, the BEA executive said.
This issue can be resolved by creating a service inventory registry, said Jacob Shapiro, systems engineer, BEA.
Shapiro said BEA is able to create a registry that manages the service inventory and reports back to administrators which ones are being used and which neglected.
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