Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic

The business case must describe how business goals are to be achieved, and provide IT with the flexibility to leverage data from disparate legacy and modern applications and systems. To help organizations build strong and compelling business cases, the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic service offers business and IT leaders the resources needed to identify various service-oriented architecture opportunities, to determine priorities and to capture qualitative and quantitative value drivers.

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Discover how the Accenture SOA Reference Architecture can help you implement SOA successfully in the post-assessment phase.

Accenture is seen by IT industry analysts as a leader in service-oriented architecture strategy, and is known for its excellence in delivering solutions for the architecture.

The Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic service offers business and government organizations the deep insight that helps them conduct the due diligence required to define a service-oriented roadmap.

Supported by the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic Tool, the Accenture SOA Diagnostic service delivers the following:

• Structured interviews with key business and IT leaders that provide a 360-degree understanding of business challenges.

• Analysis of service-oriented architecture engagement opportunities, key value drivers and critical success factors.

• Graphical summary of service-oriented architecture maturity aligned with the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Maturity Model.

• Visual representation of gaps in key service-oriented architecture enablers.

• Summary of Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic Tool findings.

The Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic can be conducted in a number of different ways to meet specific client needs. Based on those needs, Accenture offers analysis at varying levels of depth and duration. In particular, we provide two assessment profiles:

• Brief "as is" service-oriented architecture assessment of five days' duration.

• In-depth service-oriented architecture "as is" assessment of 20 days' duration.

The Accenture SOA Diagnostic is a service provided by Accenture as a phase of the Accenture SOA Roadmap.

In addition to the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic, other Accenture offerings that help organizations assess their readiness for Service-oriented Architecture and prepare for its implementation include:

• Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Roadmap: Helps businesses and government agencies define prudent but immediate steps they can take to create a solid business case for SOA. Part of this offering is the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic service.

• Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic Tool: This supports the Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Diagnostic service, and makes it possible to gather key data for Accenture Service-oriented Architecture Roadmap development through features that allow surveys to be precisely tailored to client needs.