Ivory Service Architect is one of the few solutions to deliver both top-down service design and bottom-up service design.

 

Ivory Service Architect’s top-down service design truly allows external business processes and tools to drive the definition of the web service. This approach allows the web service developer to work in advance with the user(s) who need the service, identifying the consumer’s functional and data requirements, and then mapping the mainframe components to the service requirements.

 

Having this design flexibility, the developer builds an integrated business service that automates all the steps and operations required to fulfill those requirements, which ensures that the components of the architecture are optimally designed and sized to promote maximum reuse and efficiency.

Further adding to the advantages of top-down design, Ivory Service Architect supports the import of WSDL and XML schemas that have been defined outside of Ivory. This means you can import any WSDL that has been generated from UML tools, written by hand, or by any other product. This greatly speeds the development of mainframe services.

 

The bottom-up service design approach is common across industry tools and is also very easily accomplished through Ivory Service Architect.

 

So whether an organization needs the strategic top-down service design or a tactical bottom-up method — or a combination of the two — Ivory Service Architect provides the service orchestration tools that ensure operational efficiencies and cost savings.