Is SunGard drinking SODA?
As CSA (SunGard’s SOA) continues to achieve adoption throughout SunGard, it is apparent that existing SunGard applications are being reused in many ways via service virtualization. Our customer SOA environments and requirements are driving this capability as well as SunGard’s desire to leverage each capability into composite solutions. The pattern emerging at SunGard is that business process is growing in importance over merely coding logic, an due to this services are being defined not only out of our vast install base of legacy systems but are appearing in new development as well.
The Service-Oriented Development Approach (SODA) ushers is evolving as a new age of alignment between the needs of our customers, the style of programming at SunGard and the platforms of deployment. As runtime activities occur at design time, the ability of a system to be more changeable at any point in the life cycle of use is dramatically increased.
SunGard is focusing as well on composite solutions powered by the CSA, which address new product categories that are not just incremental improvements on previous products, but provide value across several domains. These composite solutions will leverage existing code (wrapped and virtualized) as well as new components designed from the beginning as services.
So, in short, it appears that new functionality is being designed at SunGard with service orientation in mind, proving that service virtualization isn’t just about wrapping legacy systems.