“Long and windy road ahead” – By Mark Brogden (Jan 26, 2014)
Month: January 2014
Enterprise Architecture Strategy – Information-Driven Approach
Enterprise Strategy There is an ever ongoing debate on the best approach to define the Enterprise IT Architecture Strategy and roadmap. Many corporate IT Strategies fail due to its complexity and inability to deliver an easy to understand, follow, execute and… Read More ›
SOA Taxonomy
SOA Service Classification Groups SOA classification is used to describe SOA Services to potential consumers and business stakeholders. It is very common to assign one or more categories to each SOA Service. Some taxonomies can be made mandatory and some as optional…. Read More ›
SOA Service Lifecycle Governance Process
SOA Service Lifecycle Governance Process The SOA / Integration Service Lifecycle Governance Process is fundamental and of the critical importance to the Enterprise SOA success. Without implementing this process in a mature and scalable manner, SOA will most likely end… Read More ›
Key Enterprise SOA Standards, Guidelines, Processes
The following are the key SOA related standards and design guidelines necessary for any successful SOA implementation: Overall SOA Strategy and Standards SOA Technical Standards: SOAP or REST or both, WSDL/XSD standards, Exception handling, SOA Security Implementation guidelines (WS-Security, WS-Policy,… Read More ›
SOA Service Principals
SOA Service Principals These are fundamental SOA Service principles applied: Services are business meaningful to the business Services are reusable Services are loosely coupled (at implementation, platform and communication layers) Services are stateless Services are discoverable Services support federation Services implement independently… Read More ›
Why Enterprise SOA Fails
The top factors contributing to SOA failing to its promise are: Organizational Challenges Lack of Executive sponsorship and business buy-in Wrong SOA implementation funding model Underestimating effort and investment required to deliver SOA Absence of global Integration/SOA CoE and organizational… Read More ›
Enterprise SOA Success Factors
The key SOA Success Factors are: Organizational Strong Executive level sponsorship and business buy-in Practical, mature Enterprise Integration/SOA CoE capability (80% implementation and 20% strategy focus) without functional boundaries Practical SOA strategy and vision backup with Enterprise level SOA roadmap Consistently adopted,… Read More ›
What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?
“The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the architectural approach that supports loosely coupled business meaningful reusable Service API to enable business flexibility in an interoperable, technology-agnostic manner. SOA consists of a set of business-aligned services that support a flexible and dynamically… Read More ›
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