Is SOA ready for the next wave into the clouds?
Eric Knorr and Dave Linthicum provide some highlights to goings-on at last week's SOA Executive Forum, held in New York.
Eric observes that three things stood out at the presentations:
1) "SOA takes a long time if you do it right";
2) "companies that have been doing SOA for a long time have no problem demonstrating dramatic business benefits"; and
3) "cloud-based services are closer than I thought to being integrated into customers' SOA deployments."
I couldn't agree more, and it's good to see that companies are seriously enabling long-term strategies and are beginning to reap the business benefits that we've all been hoping to see from SOA.
Dave Linthicum, who also keynoted the event, also provides some of his observations in a recent post. He talked about a successful implementation at National City Bank, which was able to manage the people and politics around the technology infrastructure, and put some productive governance processes in place. As Dave put it, "the technology is easy…it always is."
Back to Eric's third point, focusing on the convergence between SOA and cloud. That point happened to also be at the core of a podcast I had with Dave last Sunday before he embarked to the event. (The "Joe and Dave Show" -- what a hoot! :-) ) We both agreed that the future of SOA lies beyond the firewall, in the ability to assemble services drawn from across the Web Oriented Architecture, or WOA.
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