Undoubtedly, SOA has entered the mainstream but that doesn't mean it should be embraced without caution and adequate governance practices in place. The arrival of next-generation SOA tools from leading vendors, means companies can now tackle governance issues sooner rather than later. These new tools provide the visibility, control and analytics to govern how services and processes are deployed, re-used and changed across their entire lifecycle. Whether you are just embarking on an SOA program or expanding an existing initiative, the latest governance solutions can guide you along the path to demonstrable, measurable SOA success. Read this white paper now to see why there's never been a better time to confidently invest in SOA.
PREPARING FOR MISSION-CRITICAL
SOA WITH NEXT-GENERATION
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executive summary
CONTENTS Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has develop or acquire the necessary undoubtedly entered the mainstream, skills are justified in taking a cautious Executive summary 1 with many organisations already approach, and delaying SOA adoption reaping the rewards. It has moved plans for the coming year," says Setting the scene 2 beyond hype, achieving widespread Gartner analyst Daniel Sholler.acceptance as an IT strategy for Challenges 2 delivering business results. "The focus should be on creating shared services and the governance Correct responses 3 A recent global survey of more than processes necessary for sharing within 300 large firms employing more than a reasonable domain."Conclusion 4 1,000 staff revealed that 53 percent were already using SOA in some part of This paper shows how good Questions to ask a their organisation. (1) governance practices are a pre-prospective supplier 4 requisite to success with SOA. According to the Gartner survey, Governance provides a means to another 25 percent were not using it control costs, reduce risk, maintain but had plans to do so in the next 12 business alignment and show business months, while just 16 percent indicated value of SOA investments through a they had no plans to use SOA at all. combination of people, processes and technology. However the authors of the same report also urged caution for those This paper argues that the new organisations that had not yet put generation of SOA solutions can proper governance processes in place. provide the visibility, control and analytics to govern how services and "Organisations without a clear business processes are deployed, re-used and case for SOA and without a plan to changed across their entire lifecycle.
(1) Gartner 2008 SOA User Survey: Adoption Trends and CharacteristicsPREPARING FOR MISSION-CRITICAL
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SETTING THE SCENE
KEY BENEFITS SOA has moved beyond hype to numerous service artefacts widespread acceptance as an IT and compositesThe benefits that the new strategy for delivering business value. . Lack of collaboration and trust in generation of SOA solutions bring Take up, according to Gartner, is shared servicesby delivering an end-to-end SOA highest in Europe with only a "tiny . Inability to assess and manage the governance lifecycle are: number" of firms not deploying SOA.(2) impact of change. Poor alignment between . Risk reduction - control For many organisations, SOA is organisational goals, processes and dependencies; manage the strategic to the future of their policy enforcementimpact of change; enforce business. Regardless of how fast . No formalised, reliable means policies, manage SLAs they're implementing pilot or to measure SOA progress, production SOA deployments, most business value, and return on . Business value - ensure organisations are now realising that investment (ROI)project investments yield some portion of their IT infrastructure business value; demonstrate will be services-based. As more and According to a recent survey ROI and results more organisations move from pilot conducted by ebizQ (3), covering and test SOA deployments to more 118 companies across Europe, the US . Cost savings and efficiency sophisticated, broader-reaching and Canada, the greatest difficulties - promote consolidation, production SOA deployments, the that organisations face with SOA standardisation and reuse need for SOA governance moves from governance involve a combination a "nice-to-have" to essential. of education, communication, and . Alignment - keep SOA coordination. Respondents felt aligned with the business and Historically, SOA has been adopted issues such as funding and executive architecture in compliance initially in a piecemeal, departmental sponsorship were less troublesome with business and IT policies fashion. Now it has become more than problems such as cultural mainstream, companies that have resistance and organisational barriers, . Business agility - gain not focused on SOA governance which are leading contributors to low visibility into your SOA for policies and procedures have become adoption of SOA governance.more rapid decision making exposed because without governance they cannot deploy mission-critical C... [download for more]
