The First Business Service Repository: What Does it Mean to You?

Today, SOA and BPM programs are often pursued independently inside organizations. This creates a natural disconnect between process improvement and SOA initiatives. It is inherently difficult to plan and build the portfolio of software services needed to support process automation and process changes. At the same time, business analysts aren’t taking advantage of services created by developers outside of their projects.
Organizations can reap exponential benefits by aligning BPM and SOA initiatives. SOA-powered BPM makes process automation more efficient and process change more nimble. At the same time, BPM provides IT a business-driven way to rationalize investment in creating and operating services.
SOA and BPM projects align here
An integrated Business Service Repository facilitates the alignment of BPM and SOA initiatives. CentraSite does this by becoming the central rallying point for all BPM and SOA stakeholders, from business analysts to process engineers, from architects to developers.
A Business Service Repository houses all service and process assets—including process models, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), integration server services and standalone Web services—in a single directory. This greatly improves awareness of business requirements and collaboration among your stakeholders. Within your enterprise, your architects will be able to build the roadmap for delivering services based on clear understanding of process automation needs.
A Business Service Repository should be seamlessly integrated with BPM and SOA tooling to guide both service and process lifecycles. That means business analysts and process engineers can tap into the pool of available services and manage change for processes cutting across organizational domains.
Business managers benefit from IT’s ability to rapidly make changes, and IT can justify SOA investments by tying them to process improvement. Additionally, improved real-time monitoring gives business experts actionable insight into process performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This would help your business become more performance-driven.
Change is easier with CentraSite ActiveSOA
CentraSite ActiveSOA is the market’s first Business Service Repository and it can help your organization gain a clear understanding of the dependencies and relationships between processes and services assets. As a result, you’ll be in a position to handle more rapid but controlled IT and business change.
It facilitates the alignment of BPM and SOA initiatives. It does this by becoming the central rallying point for all BPM and SOA stakeholders, from business analysts to process engineers, from architects to developers.
Additionally, you’ll be able to measure more easily your ROI on SOA projects by managing SOA assets directly alongside BPM assets that increase efficiency and improve business performance.

Software AG’s customers provide testimony to its ability to deliver software for improving business processes and its software portfolio helps foster new levels of IT agility through SOA and allows the rapid creation of new business processes with BPM.