It's a cliché that SOA planning should focus on the big picture, but Hewlett-Packard is offering new graphical tools that actually create pictures for doing that planning.
Using the new Visual Intelligence Tools, which debuted this month, HP consultants can show business users where inclusion in an SOA environment could help boost performance of legacy applications, said Paul Evans, HP's worldwide director of application modernization. The tools employing technology originally developed for social networking analysis are an attempt to bridge the communications gap between IT and business people.
The tools produce graphics that show the potential of SOA with red, yellow and green bar charts and without the technical jargon that often leaves business managers and executives dazed and confused, Evans said.
