Introduction

Organizations of all sizes and shapes can extractmore value from an enterprise-wide ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) by taking businessprocess and IT infrastructure requirements intoconsideration from the get-go. To successfullydeliver on the promise of SOA (see box below),Cognizant has taken a “SOA Center of

Excellence” approach to create foundational

technologies that clients can count on to

smoothen the implementation process.

Operating within Cognizant’s Global Technology

Office (GTO), our SOA Center of Excellence (CoE)

has a suite of methodologies, frameworks and

accelerators to enable the scalable and

productive adoption of SOA. The CoE also works

with leading product players to ensure that

Cognizant has exceptional fluency and

competency in the latest and most relevant

technologies in the SOA space. The business

process portion of SOA engagements are

handled by our industry domain consultants who

have deep experience working with companies

within their dedicated vertical practice areas.

Tight collaboration between our best-of-breed

vertical industry and SOA technology practices

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SOA Center of Excellence

Cognizant Solutions Overview

Cognizant’s SOA Prospectus

� Improved business responsiveness through aprocess-centric IT organization

� Reusable IT assets to leverage infrastructureinvestments long-term

� Lower integration costs and less vendor lock-in

� Business activity monitoring in real-time, fortracking key business issues and opportunities

enables Cognizant to deliver on SOA initiativesthat lead to continuous top-line and bottom-lineimprovements.

SOA Center of Excellence

The SOA CoE is comprised of highly skilledarchitects, technology managers and domainexperts. Cognizant has recruited and trainedthese professionals on various aspects of SOAsuch as Business Process Management, SOAGovernance modeling, SOA standards andfoundational technologies. The center has alsodemonstrated thought leadership by regular &active participation in leading industry events,such as IBM Impact, IEEE and the STEP AutoConference.

SOA Delivery Excellence

Our SOA core team relentlessly builds SOA bestpractices and reference architectures, and alsodevelops training and enablement assets. Basedon extensive field experience and appliedindustry best practices, the CoE has created aproprietary SOA Maturity Model for Enterprise,also known as SMM4E.

SMM4E provides a six-step framework for gradualand pragmatic adoption of SOA. Our maturitymodel is a key differentiator that helps determinehow mature clients are in SOA and whatinitiatives would provide the optimum balance ofbusiness benefits and risk mitigation. The initialstep is a tactical SOA project to demonstratetechnical feasibility. From there, the modelenables Cognizant to help clients gradually

ascend the SOA maturity curve with a morestandardized and business-driven ServiceOriented Architecture.

SOA Accelerators

Cognizant has tools to help accelerate the SOAdevelopment process. These tools includeArchitecture Workbench, which drives thesoftware architecture specification process andCafé.SOA, which is an architectural framework toenhance project productivity, promotestandardization and improve the quality of SOAproject deliverables.

SOA Lifecycle Services

To enable seamless delivery of large, strategicSOA programs, Cognizant offers an array of SOALifecycle Services. “SOA Lifecycle Services” isCognizant’s top-down approach for enabling end-to-end SOA adoption in a heterogeneousenvironment. They are proven to increase thestrategic value of SOA, while reducing the risk inSOA adoption in an enterprise or department-wide setting. Our SOA Lifecycle services arecomposed of four major components:

1) Strategy - SOA Strategy & Governance Modeling

2) Architecture - SOA Business Modeling &Solution Architecture

3) Composition & Assembly – Service Identificat-ion, building and assembling composite services

4) Deploy & Manage - Ensures the best returnon SOA assets

Business process modeling services are available

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Cognizant’s SMM4E Model

through our industry practices to ensure thatSOA vision and deployment are aligned withbusiness process renovation and innovationstrategies.

Entry Point Services

Cognizant’s SOA entry point services offer quicktime to value for SOA adoption. These servicespivot around common architecture & reusabletechnology components. Below are Cognizant’skey entry point services:

1) BPM: Model, Simulate, Optimize and Imple-ment business processes that leverage existingassets; deploy new services using tried and trueSOA principles.

2) Infrastructure as Service: Consolidate servers,leverage virtualization, grid and utility computingand strategize provisioning approaches for IThardware.

3) Information as Service: Build data & informat-ion services for business entities and abstractunderlying data sources.

4) Integration: Enterprise Service Bus patternsto integrate COTS, SAP, legacy applications andWeb services.

5) LegacyModernization:SOA patterns to modern-ize legacy mainframe applications leveragingexisting assets.

6) Portals: Standardized front-end SOA patternsfor improving collaboration, productivity anduser experience.

Industry Frameworks & Accelerators

Additionally, Cognizant has SOA-baseddevelopment frameworks & accelerators. Thesedomain specific SOA solutions address well-defined industry challenges. Some of Cognizant’sdomain solutions are applicable to the Retail,Manufacturing and Logistics, Insurance andBanking sectors. One out-of-the-box solution, forexample, offers multi-channel retailers a commonback-end integration architectural framework tosupport mobile, Web-based and store-frontretailing.

Delivery Model

Cognizant’s SOA delivery model consists ofexperienced program managers and enterprisearchitects from Cognizant’s Advanced SolutionPractice, domain and process experts from ourCognizant Business Consulting group, andtechnology experts from relevant CoEs,horizontal and vertical practices. Our matrixapproach to SOA delivery provides breadth,depth and scale that ensures tight alignment withbusiness objectives.

Alliances & Partners

Cognizant partners with some of the leading SOAsoftware providers including IBM, Oracle,Microsoft, and SAP; BPM leaders such as PegaSystems; and SOA niche players like LogicLibrary. Cognizant is among the first SystemsIntegrators to receive IBM’s “SOA SpecialtyPartner” status.

Delivery Teams

The skill set of Cognizant consultants is deep andbroad and can be classified into three key areas:

� SOA Domain

� SOA Technology

� Core SOA Consulting

SOA Domain Focus

� Banking & Financial Services

� Insurance

� Telecommunications

� Manufacturing & Logistics

� Retail & Hospitality

� New Technology

� Healthcare

� Life Sciences

� Information, Media and Entertainment

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SOA Technology Expertise

� IBM’s WebSphere, Lotus & Tivoli

� SAP (eSOA)

� SeeBeyond

� WebMethods

� WebLogic

� Microsoft’s BizTalk server, WCF, Share Point& MoM

� Open Source SOA – Service Mix, Mule,X-Fire, Axis

� Business Works

� Rational SME

� Oracle Fusion

Core SOA Consulting Proficiencies

� Program Management

� IT & SOA Governance

� SOA Consultancy

� Enterprise Architecture

� Service-Oriented Analysis & Design

� SOA Technology Stack

� Web Services

Conclusion

Partnering with Cognizant enables clients toquickly benefit from the cutting-edge SOAresearch and development work performed byour SOA Center of Excellence. This helps them toaccelerate time-to-benefits generated by SOA,from increased operational agility and reduced ITcosts through more standardized and consistentbusiness processes, which can boost top-line andbottom-line performance.

As a customer-centric, relationship-driven globaltechnology partner, Cognizant’s single-mindedmission is to dedicate our business process andinnovation know-how, our deep industryexpertise and worldwide resources for workingtogether with clients to make their businessesstronger. We are redefining the way companiesexperience and benefit from global services. Ifyou have the passion to make technology thecore of your business advantage, Cognizantdelivers a trusted partnership, cost savings andresults to get you there.

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