Conference Architect Insight 2007, Roadmap to Strategic SOA

David Sprott, CBDI

- SOA is very old, this session will start with an assessment to help participants understand what

is their current SOA adoption stage
- CBDI Presentation, SOA consultants
- Specialist firm provinding actionable guidance and support to the most profound transformation

in the history of business and IT
 - Enabling structured, enterprise level SOA
 - Facilitating SOA standards
  - Submitted a meta model for SOA (check this)
 - Research based best practices
- The challenge:
 - Complex change management problem
 - Introducing architecture driven approach to largely unstructured environment
- PRE-SOA
 - Project driven
 - Variable approaches and processes
 - Point to point integration
 - Low levels of reuse at any level
 - Loose coupled technology
 - Tight coupled applications
 - Low level of business alignment
- SOA
 - Business/IT convergence
 - Contract based services
 - High levels of reuse of coarser grained functionality
 - Manufacturing and assembly environment
 - Architecture and policy driven
 - Repeatable processes
 - Strong governance to maintain architectural integrity
- Tactical SOA
 - Project and infrastructure driven
 - Delivering and using services with little or no structure
 - Little or no consensus or consistency across the organization
 - No explicit policies and repeatable processes thar permit governance
 - Recipe for Service Anarchy and limited ROI
 - Most enterprise are doing SOA today in some fashion
- Strategic SOA
 - Analogous to a manufacturing and assembly environment
 - Classes of service have appropriate, repeatable processes
 - (...)
- CBDI-SAE SOA Reference Framework
- A clutch of SOA Maturity Levels
 - SEI CMMI
 - BEA Systems
 - IBM - Service Integration Maturity Level
 - Service Maturity Model from AmberPoint, Bearing Point, Sonic Software
- SOA Capability/Maturity Model
 - Strategy
 - Capability
 - Maturity
 - Work Package
 - Outcome
- Steps:
 - Early Learning, initial SOA activity experimental
 - Applied, project based SOA activity, service architecture enables business adaptability

for limited scope
 - Integrated, Shared services integrate silos, rationalize EAI contracts, integrated

approach reduces complexity, cost and increases adaptability
 - Enterprise, enterprise level shared services create enterprise adaptability and

consistency
 - Ecosystem (...)
- SOA Roadmap Streams:
 - SOA Management
 - Service Architecture
 - Operational Infrastructure
 - Lifecycle Infrastructure
 - Framework and Process
 - Organization
 - Projects and Programs

Workshop:

1) Framework and Process
2) Service Architecture
3) Operational Infrastructure
4) Life Cycle Infrastructure
5) Organization
6) Projects and Programs
7) SOA Management

 



Published Monday, March 05, 2007 3:42 PM by António Cruz
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Ant said:

March 5, 2007 7:59 PM
 

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March 8, 2007 2:07 AM