Flashline(R) and Herzum Software today announced a partnership to help organizations jumpstart their service-oriented architecture (SOA) programs. Herzum Software is providing joint customers consulting services based on its COSM(TM) approach to advance strategic, enterprise-wide SOA initiatives facilitated by the Flashline for SOA registry/repository.
For customers using Flashline for SOA for the governance and lifecycle management of Web services and related assets, Herzum Software's consulting services help address early-stage challenges critical for a successful SOA initiative. These consulting services include development of an SOA roadmap, blueprinting of enterprise architecture, creation of architectural and organizational design/patterns, construction of business and common services, and implementation of SOA-based integration and interoperability technologies.
Herzum Software's best practices for defining and executing an SOA program complement Flashline's best practices for the management and governance of SOA as a portfolio of assets for maximum business value. With a clear strategy, well-designed services, and strong governance practices, organizations will have established the foundation for strategic enterprise SOA enabled by the Flashline for SOA enterprise registry/repository. By implementing a repository at program inception, customers avoid the common mistake of adding governance as an afterthought, which can lead to SOA failure.
"Herzum Software offers a potent mix of experience in the planning and management of enterprise IT initiatives and a deep understanding of technical design and architecture for SOA," stated Jay Holmstrom, Vice President of Consulting Solutions, Flashline. "This depth of knowledge is invaluable for companies that want to make the right first steps on the path to enterprise SOA. When you combine Herzum Software's expertise with Flashline's governance and reuse capabilities, organizations quickly learn that there is real substance -- and real value -- behind all the SOA hype."
Flashline for SOA, a leading enterprise registry/repository for Web services and related assets, provides governance, lifecycle management and analytics for SOA. Fortune 500 organizations and Federal agencies are improving agility, decreasing complexity and increasing ROI with Flashline as the system of record for their SOA initiatives. Flashline for SOA provides patent-pending automation functionality that enables executives to monitor compliance with architecture standards and business priorities.
"A key component of a successful SOA program is a repository to capture, view and communicate the multitude of related deliverables from services specifications to integration use cases, program plans and blueprints," said Luigi Guadagno, Senior Vice President, Herzum Software. "Flashline for SOA provides the feature richness, flexibility and scalability needed by enterprises to manage the SOA challenges and to succeed with any SOA initiative."
Herzum Software's perspective of Enterprise SOA (ESOA) is a wide-impact, enterprise-level program created to support objectives in a business or IT strategy, leading to a simplified application portfolio, adaptive integration architecture, and a flexible IT organization managed as a business, for the business.
About Herzum Software
Herzum Software is an international consulting company specializing in IT strategy, enterprise architecture, software integration and agile software development. Its mission is to Empower business through IT.
Herzum Software can help reduce organizations' IT costs and resolve their architectural, project, or technology challenges. It handles projects and organizations from the startup phase to the Fortune 100 level. Organizations accelerate their successes by adopting COSM(TM), Herzum Software's widely-used approach for Enterprise Architecture and Agile Developments. COSM is the only approach able to scale from the smallest project to the management of a whole IT portfolio, assuring a common conceptual framework and continuous flow from business strategy down to individual projects. Herzum Software is a privately owned company with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.
For more information visit: http://www.herzumsoftware.com .
About Flashline, Inc.
Flashline's award-winning software asset portfolio management solutions provide enterprise-wide visibility into an organization's software assets to reduce IT costs and improve business agility. Fortune 500 companies and Federal agencies use Flashline to ensure that their project portfolios effectively leverage existing software assets to optimize business value and align with business objectives. Through patent-pending automation technology and graphical navigation, Flashline manages relationships and interdependencies among business processes, Web services, applications, other assets and projects to reduce execution risk. Using Flashline analytics, senior managers can monitor compliance and measure cost reduction and consolidation benefits of key IT initiatives such as service-oriented architecture, enterprise architecture and reuse. Flashline has pioneered full- cycle IT governance and end-to-end traceability through integrations with leading project portfolio management technologies and software development lifecycle tools. Flashline is a privately held company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. For more information visit: http://www.flashline.com .
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