The OpenSpan Platform is highly complementary to existing SOA Platforms and allows you to accelerate your SOA deployments. Among the ways OpenSpan is used within a SOA environment:

• Extend legacy applications to consume web services. Add new business logic to existing applications including the ability to invoke web services. Minimize employee re-training by leveraging existing applications and user interfaces.
• Service-enable virtually any application. Expose legacy functionality as a set of services. Extend your SOA implementations to virtually any Windows/desktop, host, Java, web, PowerBuilder, even DOS applications. Also supports third-party, Software-as-a-Service applications as well as “closed” applications for which you do not have access to API’s or connectors or even the underlying source code. 
• Service-enable business process automations. Expose automations that span multiple applications as web services. Create services that are more transactional in nature, which span multiple legacy applications.
• Deploy services on desktops. Extend enterprise BPM solutions to the user environment; enable integration between virtualized applications or for peer-to-peer scenarios.
• Move legacy applications off user desktops and into your data center. Eliminate the need to access legacy applications on the desktop by delivering needed functionality as a set of services deployed in a scalable server environment.

For more information, please visit the OpenSpan Platform page or view the Service-enablement online demonstration.