Interoperability and Standards for Service-oriented Architecture

Accenture is working with clients and other industry players to promote open technologies, standards and interoperability.

The benefits of interoperability are greater flexibility and faster, low-cost, low-risk and platform-neutral system integration and development. It promotes the ability of IT systems to align with business goals, a key component of high performance as shown in Accenture research.

Interoperability requires conformity to a commonly accepted set of basic technologies. As the service-oriented architecture (SOA) revolution, which promotes interoperability, takes hold, standards become paramount. SOA maximizes the benefit of technology by enabling different services to interact successfully with each other.

The close alignment of service-oriented architecture with Web services, enables greater collaboration and connectivity within the organization and with external parties such as suppliers.

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Respected analysts are already rating Accenture highly as an SOA partner. Read how respected industry analysts rate Accenture's SOA capabilities.

Accenture's drive to help clients unleash the power of service-oriented architecture to achieve high performance is greatly strengthened by its alliances with market-leading and emerging vendors in this field.

Accenture is playing a key role in creating the standards that will enable true interoperability:

• The Web Services Interoperability Organization: Accenture is a founding member of the Web Services Interoperability Organization, an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.
  
  
• Chem eStandards: Most businesses and industries have only just begun to tap the full benefits of e-commerce as a result of the introduction of standards for electronic data exchange. To make the leap to a transformational system of online commerce, the chemical industry formed The Chemical eStandards Initiative™ consortium and turned to Accenture for industry and technical skills.
  
  
• The OASIS Standards Consortium: Accenture is a contributor to OASIS, a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.

Related Research and Insights

Recent Accenture research shows that high performers are twice as likely as their competitors to use SOA. Read The Business Case for SOA and convince the rest of the C-suite that SOA holds the key to high performance.