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Here are “Eight Things to Consider” as you evaluate your existing infrastructure, current and future needs,
and prepare to evaluate potential solutions. Remember to think about these questions across the lifecycle
of your projects: design, deployment and maintenance. Don’t just consider the first development phase;
rather think about how easily your infrastructure will support your goals going forward. After all, poor
infrastructure choices can put your entire enterprise architecture at risk.
1. Can your infrastructure support 3. How richly can you describe all the
multiple protocols? complex rules and relationships between
You live in a mixed-protocol world, and as the world your interfaces?
becomes more distributed, your partners, providers The proper execution of a business process
and customers will add new protocols into the requires defining how information is exchanged
mix. Not every integration platform was built between the relevant services. If these exchanges
with heterogeneity in mind. This is why a careful include processing complex business rules and
evaluation of what protocols you need to support relationships, using a simple mapping tool that
today and tomorrow, and how those new protocols lacks the capabilities to manage these higher
will be integrated is important. Retrofitting to order rules will result in an implementation that
support a protocol will require customizations— is opaque, and hard to comprehend and support.
and how much that will cost to develop and support This unnecessary complexity steepens the learning
become a key question. curve and has cost and efficiency implications on
your development, documentation and support
2. How effectively can you respond to processes.
change in models, schemas and services?
Understanding what changed and how that change 4. What are your performance demands—
affects the integrated assets in your current today and tomorrow?
infrastructure are key components of change Performance is determined by a number of
management. Today you are probably addressing considerations, often found in SLAs, which address
change with manual documentation searches. A service scaling, response time, availability,
self-documenting solution that provides impact security and audit requirements. Understanding
analysis, remediation, testing (for defect-free-code) the enterprise’s performance demands today, and
and generation of new interfaces is a solution in the future, is vitally important as architectural
that will reduce your cycle time, cutting both tradeoffs are made to handle these considerations
development and maintenance costs, leading to individually or in the context of a global
lower TCO. management architecture and framework.
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