Comments on: Is SOA success down to the business/IT relationship? http://www.agilitysoftware.com/2007/06/26/is-soa-success-down-to-the-businessit-relationship/ Business Led Computing Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Francis Carden http://www.agilitysoftware.com/2007/06/26/is-soa-success-down-to-the-businessit-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Francis Carden Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:53:10 +0000 http://www.workforceinabox.com/2007/06/26/is-soa-success-down-to-the-businessit-relationship/#comment-90 I concur. The "A" in SOA stands for Architecture which is not an overnight affair (some analysts put it in the 5-10+ years category which is correct in my view). Few “C” level executives can afford to hold up or stall business requirements / pains / crises for the sake of a complete re-architecture. Business should not and will not tolerate that in today’s ultra competitive global economy. Too many people focus on the “S” in SOA and think that everything as a service is a panacea that can happen overnight. It cannot lest it would have already been done. The “O” in SOA stands for oriented, so to me implies a direction or better still a goal. SOA is not the be-all-and-end-all. SOA is a long term strategy for enterprise. History also shows that the chance of some “next new thing” before your SOA re-architecture is complete / succeeds / fails is high. Business and IT must align around the business goals and SOA may or may not be a part of it. I concur. The “A” in SOA stands for Architecture which is not an overnight affair (some analysts put it in the 5-10+ years category which is correct in my view).

Few “C” level executives can afford to hold up or stall business requirements / pains / crises for the sake of a complete re-architecture. Business should not and will not tolerate that in today’s ultra competitive global economy.

Too many people focus on the “S” in SOA and think that everything as a service is a panacea that can happen overnight. It cannot lest it would have already been done. The “O” in SOA stands for oriented, so to me implies a direction or better still a goal. SOA is not the be-all-and-end-all. SOA is a long term strategy for enterprise. History also shows that the chance of some “next new thing” before your SOA re-architecture is complete / succeeds / fails is high.

Business and IT must align around the business goals and SOA may or may not be a part of it.

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