Service-Oriented Architecture & Editorial Manager

Like many world-scale Web presences (Amazon, Google, etc.), the Editorial Manager (EM) system is built around Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – why is this so important?

  • SOA has emerged as an enterprise-critical concept, specifically to rationalize the robust development, maintenance and evolution of large-scale software systems like EM
  • This modern, foundational software framework means that EM is intrinsically flexible, extensible and adaptable, even over long periods of time (decades) and dozens of software updates
  • SOA has allowed EM to accommodate publishers’ evolving workflow automation needs for more than 18 years, and promises accommodation into and beyond the foreseeable future
  • Use of SOA improves system reliability and availability, as demonstrated by the 99.9%+ up-time provided by EM
  • A major benefit of SOA is the ability to scale-out EM implementations, supporting the needs of individual journals as well as publishers with thousands of journals, all within a single software code base
  • Use of SOA also facilitates efficient integration and interaction between EM and third party solutions, reflected in the dozens of third party solution implementations available to EM customers
  • SOA allows continuous, incremental enhancement of the EM user interface (UI) and user experience (UX), while not subjecting users to wholesale and confusing changes to the UI/UX
  • Software development in an SOA environment is intrinsically agile, allowing for frequent, functionally rich software updates that keep pace with a publisher’s emerging business requirements
  • Systems built on a SOA framework are “future-proofed”, assuring EM customers that their workflow investments today will continue to deliver ROI and value (for publishers and their constituents) into the indefinite future
  • Read more about SOA at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture

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