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As mission critical operational processes and capabilities become more IT oriented, agencies are finding it costly and resource intensive to support numerous applications, services, and data sets from disparate systems. The ability to draw upon existing and/or legacy systems or data becomes costly, and an integration nightmare as various interfaces and data formats must be taken into account.

Service oriented architecture (SOA) provides agencies with a framework from which to quickly develop, launch, and support Enterprise-wide applications and services that are built on a set of core standards and can access metadata from across the agency.

Benefits agencies can achieve from SOA solutions include:

  • Reduced cost
  • Business agility
  • Standardization
  • Reduced time to launch new services
  • Increased security

Merlin International® is a leader in SOA solutions that allow our customers to integrate and manage disparate business applications and systems, thus helping agencies to effectively and efficiently complete their missions.

Merlin’s innovative SOA solutions allow for the flexible and rapid creation of mission-critical functionality (applications, dashboards, decision-support systems, and portals) from business-oriented component services that are developed or repurposed in compliance with common information-technology architecture.

Our SOA solutions fall into three main categories:

  • Consumer Suite
  • Business process management
  • Transformation
  • Business rules
  • Presentation
  • Enabler Suite
  • Governance
  • Registry/repository
  • Security
  • Monitoring and management
  • Producer Suite
  • Service creation
  • Service enablement

Merlin’s SOA solutions include:

  • Readiness Assessment: Analyzing the current level of SOA maturity within the agency, and then identifying and prioritizing the activities that are required to achieve the desired level of SOA maturity
  • Data Sharing: Making data and functionality available to support a wide variety of data-sharing initiatives
  • Application Extensibility: Adding to and/or modifying legacy application functionality through the use of SOA techniques
  • External Data Incorporation: Incorporating data or functionality made available by other external government and private entities into your agency’s applications through the use of SOA techniques
  • Enterprise Application Integration: Making multiple applications work as one integrated application through the use of SOA techniques
  • SOA Application Architecture: Designing new applications on a specific or enterprise SOA foundation;
  • SOA Enterprise Architecture: Developing a SOA-based enterprise architecture
  • SOA Enablement: Creating a SOA foundation consisting of governance, process, registry/repository, security, monitoring and management that facilitate SOA producer-consumer relationships

EXAMPLES: Merlin Provides Service Oriented Architecture Solutions to Clients