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Sony Pictures, TCS sign service-oriented architecture agreement
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 17:42 IST
Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services company, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) to develop and deploy service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions that allow Sony and its customers to make better use of its IT assets.
Based on industry best practices, the SOA solutions combine a set of best-of-breed technologies, tools, patterns and standards from Sony Pictures, TCS and BEA Systems, which will help enterprise organizations align business functions for better flexibility and efficiency.
Sony Pictures and TCS have created a world class SOA framework that enables enterprise organizations to take sense of and respond to the changing market conditions. Centered on the deployment of reusable and network-aware applications, the SOA framework leverages key business assets within and beyond enterprise boundaries, with interoperability, independent of platforms, languages and protocols.
"This SOA framework has helped us link various IT and business components and has given us an infrastructure that is more agile, adaptable and resilient," said Rick Hopfer, CIO and senior vice president for Sony Pictures Entertainment.
In addition to substantial return on investment, the SOA approach enables enterprise organizations to streamline business processes. "TCS has been heavily involved in SOA activities for clients all over the globe and have the processes, methodologies and skills in place to help them maximize their success," said N. Chandrasekaran, executive director and COO for TCS.
Supported by BEA AquaLogic BPM, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, the enterprise SOA framework is designed to help accelerate modeling, testing and deployment of new business processes and applications. It also assists with the transformation of existing legacy software assets to SOA.