Monday, March 12, 2007
SOA Business Value
In the "SOA as a Marketplace" article (http://itko.blogspot.com/index.html), John Michelsen writes:
>"Those who produce the best services and get them leveraged through reuse will become more critical to the business overall..."
This is a slow process but it is ongoing process.
The bottom line of SOA success is its business value and the audience who should benefit most is the business audience.
One major limiting factor to the value that can come from SOA is that usually, corporate IT is in charge of the SOA transition.
If subject matter experts are not heavily involved from the beginning, the chances are that the SOA business value will not be high.
At the end of the day, the business audience will not be ready to upgrade their processes based on the new architecture.
Early involvement in the SOA transition can also help the business audience re-discover the details of their business process.
It’s very common that after mergers and corporate dynamic changes, the subject matter experts are gone, and corporate applications (that often compete to each other) are barely described by disparate documents.
SOA forces re-organization: from chaos to order.
But this is not an automatic process and it can hardly be driven by IT, although IT can provide the proper tools to connect to the business audience.
I would say that we (technologists) are not extremely successful yet in providing such connections.
>"Those who produce the best services and get them leveraged through reuse will become more critical to the business overall..."
This is a slow process but it is ongoing process.
The bottom line of SOA success is its business value and the audience who should benefit most is the business audience.
One major limiting factor to the value that can come from SOA is that usually, corporate IT is in charge of the SOA transition.
If subject matter experts are not heavily involved from the beginning, the chances are that the SOA business value will not be high.
At the end of the day, the business audience will not be ready to upgrade their processes based on the new architecture.
Early involvement in the SOA transition can also help the business audience re-discover the details of their business process.
It’s very common that after mergers and corporate dynamic changes, the subject matter experts are gone, and corporate applications (that often compete to each other) are barely described by disparate documents.
SOA forces re-organization: from chaos to order.
But this is not an automatic process and it can hardly be driven by IT, although IT can provide the proper tools to connect to the business audience.
I would say that we (technologists) are not extremely successful yet in providing such connections.
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