ZapCheck: ZapThink's One-Day SOA Quick Assessment and Sanity Check

Want to get a head start on your SOA initiatives? Already have a head start but want to accelerate progress? Already making progress but want to validate your approach against industry practices? Only have a small amount of time (or budget) to get third-party advice?

Then ZapCheck, ZapThink's One-Day SOA Quick Assessment and Sanity Check is for you!
Our ZapCheck service leverages a proven checklist-based methodology and architectural assessment approach that aims to provide the following five points of value:

1. A clear definition of the ROI of SOA for your enterprise.
   
2. A clear understanding of the right approach to SOA, including high level goals and objectives.
   
3. A clear understanding of key architectural issues and opportunities to facilitate SOA adoption.
   
4. A roadmap of architectural artifacts for enhancing your SOA efforts with established and emerging best practices
   
5. A set of deliverables for approaching management for funding and sponsorship.
   

Specifically, during this single-day, on-site engagement, our Master Architects will spend the day with your key enterprise architecture staff and supporting individuals to provide the following objectives:

1. Sanity check the SOA business case and help obtain a clear understanding as to the business goals and objectives based on existing case studies, best practices, and experiences of others in your industry.
   
2. Provide perspective on infrastructure to your SOA initiatives and Sanity Check them against best practices
   
3. Provide clarity on underlying information processing issues and business process-driven SOA activities.
   
4. Sanity check existing ROI assessments or help obtain an understanding of the potential ROI that SOA can bring.
   
5. Define / refine a plan of attack for approaching SOA within the enterprise.
   
6. Help clarify organizational and change management issues to help accelerate the pace of SOA adoption
   

Our proven Master Architects (including David Linthicum, Jason Bloomberg, Ron Schmelzer, and others) will be performing these engagements, so you're sure to get a top notch resource. Let us get you on our schedule while there's still availability. If you are interested, please email us at info@zapthink.com right away!