SOA in a down economy: Delivering improved return on IT investments through Enterprise Architecture and Legacy Modernization

Summary: In an uncertain economy, IT needs to do more with less. Given tightening budgets, and increased competition to innovate and adapt to change in a difficult marketplace, businesses need to align their business and IT goals, while at the same time reusing and repurposing existing applications and technologies to take advantage of modern architectural frameworks such as SOA. IBM can help businesses reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT investments - investments which they have either just acquired, or investments which already exist in mainframe systems across lines of business. In many cases, there is no clear knowledge of the importance of these applications to the business, and IBM can help customers understand this massive portfolio of applications through consolidation and modernization to help eliminate duplication, reduce maintenance burden and improve IT effectiveness.