Achieving business flexibility with a Service Layer

Every company starts with a single website or web application, but as your internet presence grows, many different applications and websites are deployed. With a traditional approach of treating each of these applications as a completely separate solution, a number of problems occur: common functionality is implemented inconsistently across applications, maintenance costs are high and time-to-market for new applications suffers.

Ibuildings can help you tackle these problems by designing architectures that promote re-use and reduce the cost of maintenance. This is increasingly often done by implementing a Service Layer / Service APIs. Functionality is no longer part of a monolithic application, but provided as an independent, highly re-usable web service.

Is Service Layer the right solution for you?

To evaluate whether a Service Layer might be beneficial to you, please think about the following issues:

• Does your web presence include more than one website?
• Do you have multiple applications that each run in a browser?
• Does your website have features that could be re-used in other applications?
• Do you have the feeling that your websites are reinventing the wheel?
• Is the time-to-market for new sites or applications too slow for you?
• Is the maintenance cost of your sites or applications too high?
• Are there inconsistencies between your applications and/or your websites?

If you answered 'yes' to one or more of the above questions, Service APIs might be a suitable solution. Please contact us today to find out more.