Welcome to the blog where IBMers exchange viewpoints, share their perspectives to provide more insight around service oriented architecture solutions, and delve into a range of SOA-related subjects. We want you to speak out on SOA through comments in the blog -- from where your organization stands on SOA adoption, to your challenges and experiences -- to share with the larger community the impact of SOA on your marketplace. Sandy Carter is IBM's Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels. Discover the entry points to SOA and how companies worldwide are making SOA pay right away.

Metrics are critical in SOA ... Coming Soon!

Our upcoming launch will really emphasize the value of metrics and knowing what information is really going to help you make better business decisions!

Thinking through this you can see that:
-All decisions are not equal.. need to know which decisions you need to put most focus on accuracy..
-Identify the key information needed for decision making ... & where it resides in your organization
-Make sure that information is accurate & up-to-date at the time at time of decision, and delivered to the decision maker in time & in context...
-Make sure that all stake holders in the decision share a common vocabulary regarding the information inputs and decision parameters..
-Have the ability to measure the quality of their decision making over time, and their ability to evolve it .. and constantly work to continuously improve both measurements

This is all related to SOA as SOA gives you the agility and KPIs through BPM enabled by SOA to address some of these questions!

In a related topic, here's the beginning of metrics first of how to determine if SOA can be sold to your board.....ROI being the critical metric! How do you help them decide.....!
Visit How to Measure the Value of SOA

More to come!!!