There is a need to re-architect many of the core applications that currently reside in the enterprise infrastructure.  There is also a great opportunity to develop applications as a service provider for enterprise clients.  

Blue Mountain Labs believes that service oriented architecture is the design pattern that will provide organizations the ability to maximize the benefits of the cloud and address the greatest challenges to cloud adoption.  

To develop a platform that will provide the agility and scalability that is elusive in the existing architecture.  Blue Mountain Labs incorporates and looks for key design features:

•       Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

•       Scalable Services

•       Platform Independence

•       Rapid Service Provisioning

•       High Level of Integration

•       Workflow Automation

•       Cloud Technology

Building this kind of platform is complex.  The work that is put into the design and development takes more time and requires a higher skill set to develop.  The benefit of taking this path is an application that can respond to the changes which are yet unknown to the environment.  This type of agile platform will provide the ability to respond to regulatory changes, client demands and an increasing client base without having to wait for the software and data architecture to be rewritten.  The promise of a service oriented architecture and cloud platform is scalability, agility, and a high level of efficiency in operating the system.