Enterprise Solutions

maat International, throught Cloud Computing, provides a flexible and scalable platform for delivering services.  Whereas the scalability is derived from the virtualization of the platform and the ability to devote additional resources to meet increased demand, the flexibility is based on the ability to exchange services within a Service Oriented Architecture. This ability to exchange services, in a competitive environment, requires a full understanding and documentation of the service outcomes and interfaces. SOA provides a planned and architected suite of interacting services. The architecture of services is a key to a fully articulated Enterprise Architecture.  

With professional enterprise solution consulting organization, maat offers customer-focused service differentiation by promoting synergy among enterprise solutions such as ERP, Bl, and EP/BPM.

SOA as the Foundation for Cloud

The leading SOA methodologies employ a layered architecture of services.  The purpose of the layers is to facilitate identifying services, applying the appropriate level of governance and making decisions regarding service sourcing or deployment. The Process Layer is derived from business process analysis (and business process reengineering) and is closely linked to business strategy and performance objectives (BPaaS).  The Core Enterprise Services are derived from the foundational information that the enterprise requires to meet its mission. The services in this layer are derived from data analysis and represent concepts that are more stable than business processes. Many services will require access to these core data objects.  The Underlying Services are typically provisioned by wrapping legacy transactions with a façade to expose existing, stable functionality (SaaS). The Utility Services are the services that are the most likely candidates for deploying to or consuming from the cloud (PaaS). These technical services (such as Content Management and Logging services) are ubiquitous and have the highest reuse potential (IaaS).

Cost, Performance and Environmental Benefit Analysis for Cloud Computing 

Cloud computing has the potential to dramatically impact the cost equation for obtaining IT services.  The fundamental reason for this is that cloud computing allows organizations to focus on what they do best.  Rather than having to acquire and maintain a collection of servers and supporting software, they can devote their attention to the business purpose of the servers – mission execution.  Cloud computing permits organizations to avoid the capital costs associated with establishing an infrastructure or platform and the license or development costs associated with acquiring software services. Of course, the providers of the platform or software will have to make capital investments to establish the platforms or produce the software.  However, most organizations consuming IT services from the cloud will be able to pay for the services on a per-unit consumed basis.  While this may not reduce the cost of obtaining the services, it may mean that agencies do not have to prepare a business case for capital investments in infrastructure and software.