Over the last few years the tough economic and competitive climate has forced global corporations to proactively control costs, manage resources, retain customers and respond on demand to market events. To meet the ever growing challenges of enterprise and compliance regulation industry has been touting Service Oriented Foundation is ‘the’ solutions for many of the business problems. ICAST built on SOA foundation adopts a more robust and accountable governance procedures that use methodologies such as the balanced scorecard and six sigma to help set business strategies, monitor business performance and create budgets and plans.

Businesses today face a wide range of issues that impede growth and profitability. The issues of cross-platform interoperability and remote object invocation developed into religious debates between proponents of one technology platform versus another in rapidly changing environment. Business dynamics and technological innovations have left enterprises with a disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases. This makes it difficult, time-consuming and costly to deliver seamless intelligence across the enterprise. This coupled with need for greater flexibility, driven by factors such as multichannel strategies, pressure to improve time to market, and the impact of mergers and de-mergers have furthered worsened the situation. The key to success is the ability to adapt dynamically and integrate enterprise processes and data to automate value chains in concert with changing requirements. This helps to achieve greater efficiency, generate more revenue, and enter new markets.

ICAST application is designed for future scalability by developing the architecture on SOA and performance doesn’t degrade no matter the increase in no of enterprise users. This architectural style allows providing enterprise business solutions that can extend or change on demand. SOA is composed of reusable services, with well-defined, published and standards-compliant interfaces. Thus iCAST provides a mechanism for integrating existing legacy applications regardless of their platform or language together with automated business process. Such reuse can help reduce time to market and lower IT development costs.

This provides multilayered architecture with each successive layer providing increasingly detailed data about a metric, process and event. Each layer is constructed on emerging technologies that ensures future scalability with plug and play architecture that allows users to drill down from user interface to successive details.

Plug and Play iCAST architecture enable rapid adoption of best practices and integration within IT ecosystem. By consolidating on a single platform for exceptions handling, institutions can increase its operational flexibility—gaining true market responsiveness, agility, and hard-line savings.

          The advantages of iCAST built on SOA are

• Reuse of Existing applications
• Intercommunication between applications information
• Loosely coupling
• Creates business services out of existing and future applications

There are multiple benefits of iCAST with BPM & SOA combination:


• It creates a common process base independent of any application.
• It allows people to organize their business processes and observe them visually.
• It allows people to model, simulate, and analyze business processes so they can create a business process that maximizes their objectives.
• It allows an organization to focus on Core processes.
• It facilitates reusing existing IT infrastructure & services
• Together with BPM & SOA facilitates the next business process evolution from merely "Automated" to "Managed Flexibility"
• Open, Extensible, Integrated and Metadata Management