Message from Hugh Griffiths, Director of
Griffiths Waite.

I am extremely honoured to receive such a prestigious award which reinforces Griffiths Waite's position as one of the leading Oracle Partners in the UK and demonstrates our commitment to SOA and our customers.

Our approach and methodology to delivering SOA projects and our continual track record of Customer Satisfaction in SOA has played a major role in winning this award.

This is a fantastic achievement and a real credit to our talented and hard working staff. I would like to thank colleagues in Griffiths Waite in making this a success and having 'customers' at the core of everything we do. Congratulations & Well Done!

Enterprise Architecture is having a revival and this is mainly being inspired by SOA.

EA has gained momentum in the last 10 years for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the most important is the acceleration of market changes for organisations, and as a consequence the concept of business agility has become a strategic imperative for long term survival and growth. However, quick and effective changes are not possible today without changes to IT systems and infrastructures - EA's challenge is to make IT cheaper, more strategic and more responsive.

It's approach is basically city planning for IT; an overarching plan of the total data, business processes and IT assets inside a company, how they're used, and how they should be built and shared. However - standardising, mapping and controlling IT assets do not make the business obviously more flexible, capable or profitable. As a result, past EA architecture efforts often stall, fail, or become just IT-centric.

The emergence of SOA, however, provides new ways for designing more agile, more responsive enterprise architectures that provide the kind of value the business has been seeking. With these new architectures, IT can build new business capabilities faster, cheaper and in a vocabulary the business can understand.

SOA does not define EA, but it can form its new core. Organisations who build EA's without SOA will miss an opportunity to address the two most enduring complaints that the business has leveled at IT: slowness and inflexibility.

Griffiths Waite is a contributing member of the main TOGAF workgroup and the SOA project team. TOGAF - The Open Group Architectural Framework is the emerging standard for Enterprise Architecture. Having established a key foundation in Business and IT architectures TOGAF has now established a SOA working group that is starting to define the architectural frameworks and standards around SOA and the related Ontology's.

Griffiths Waite are synergistic with the leading edge thinking and developments in Enterprise Architecture and SOA development and provide effective leadership and advice to our clients on the Enterprise Architecture Strategies and SOA roadmaps.

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