At ValueMomentum, we believe that with the advent of SOA, the days of thick applications are over. More and more we will see Shared Platforms (purchased from industry platform leaders) and services being composed into applications. For example, in the earlier days, a typical Contract Management application vendor used to spend 60% of initial development dollars in building workflow and rules management engines. It is no longer necessary to build such code into applications. Shared Platforms from leading IT platform provides that functionality allowing application vendors to focus on assembling thin applications by leveraging services and such platforms.

Keeping the above in mind, we have adopted the following solution building approach:

• Leverage Thick Infrastructure (including specialized Author and Execute Platforms) from leading platform vendors so as to be able to deliver user desired functionality with a thin application layer. Such thick infrastructure will include Portals, SOBA Platforms and Author/Execute platforms such as Business Rule Engine, BPM engines, Constraint Solvers and Calculation engines.
• Conform to SOA principles to ensure high reusability; Leverage SOA enabled development tools for rapidly assembling /composing services into applications
• Leverage the now mature MDA standards and tools in enabling model driven application development & code generation

We believe that adhering to the above development guidelines will result in several benefits:

• Speed-to-market
• Fulfill business needs
• Flexibility for reduced time for change requests
• Empower business users to “configure” functionality and processes.
• Re-use, Do not redevelop
• Longevity by using shared platforms from leading vendors