CIT Services Seminar: Integration Services Center (ISC)

The CIT Services Seminar Series (see also Interface issue 249) showcases CIT's diverse technology service offerings currently available to the NIH community, and provides an opportunity to introduce future services. This quarter's seminar, held on June 8, 2011, focused on the Integration Services Center (ISC) and the Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Authentication services and solutions it provides.

Integration Services Center (ISC)

As Tom Murphy, NIH CIO (acting), pointed out at the opening of the seminar, the Integration Services Center (ISC) provides services that affect every institute and center at NIH, from access to applications to facilitating grants funding and patient travel. The ISC is a one-stop centralized resource for integrated services, assisting the NIH community with current Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools, ensuring seamless transition during application integration, and playing a key role in the implementation of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based applications being adopted by the federal government as industry standard.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

One of the ISC's services the CIT seminar focused on was Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and its ability to add web services to legacy applications, as well as the reusability of SOA services across multiple applications. To show the concrete benefits of the service, the session also included a case study of SOA in use at NBS that featured the time and cost savings achieved integrating reusable web services into the NBS applications.

Enterprise Authentication Services

Other presentations during the CIT Services seminar highlighted the latest in NIH iTrust and Enterprise Authentication services offered by the ISC, as well as a case study on the Electronic Vendor Invoice Processing (eVIP) project currently in development. The eVIP program is designed to replace the current manual invoicing system and has the potential to save NIH millions of dollars.

See it on NIH VideoCast

For those who missed the seminar, the entire session is available as an archived VideoCast through CIT's NIH VideoCast service at: http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=10258. Captions are available by using the closed caption "CC" button at the bottom right.

More about the CIT Services Seminar Series

CIT Services Seminar Series events are sponsored by CIT Relationship Managers and open to current and potential CIT customers at the NIH. For more information on the CIT Services Seminars, or to find out what the next topic will be, go to: http://www.cit.nih.gov/Support/RelationshipManagers/ServicesSeminar.htm.

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