Dubai Municipality, IBM discuss SOA framework

Dubai Municipality and IBM discussed the challenges, issues and successes of their next generation Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) implementation twelve months after the go-live date, at a press briefing.

SOA is an application framework that breaks business applications down into individual functions and processes.

IBM also shared its work with Dubai Municipality as launch partner for SOA Leadership Centre in Dubai as a result of the success of the civic body's project. Those present were Abdullah Al Shaibani, Assistant Director General, Dubai Municipality and Steve Mills, Senior Vice-President and Group Executive Software Group IBM.

"The project was a major undertaking that required us to streamline disparate operations from the analogue world into one system in the digital world," said Al Shaibani.

In November 2007, the Dubai Municipality completed its initiative to deploy a SOA as the single point of access to all its e-services and re-deployed 27 existing services directly into the new architecture to bring the the civic body in line with Dubai's e-Government initiatives.

Steve Mills said: "The Dubai Municipality case is an excellent example of governments using technology platforms to enable them to not only work efficiently and securely now, but to enable future proofing for unforeseeable changes in the business landscape".

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