This column kicked off three weeks ago with an attempt to answer the question, " What's wrong with SOA?" That led to an exploration of a plain-English conceptual model that business leaders can lean to on to keep SOA efforts on track.
To recap:
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What's in a Name? The Trouble With SOA
The benefits of a SOA are widely touted by advocates, and easily understood by anyone in the C-suite cost savings, risk reduction, and business agility through high reuse, interoperability by design, and loosely-coupled integration.
But while practitioners agree on the benefits, the methods for attaining them are evolving and conflicted. Spend any time perusing the SOAsphere, and it's clear that few areas of IT are as politically charged. Pervasive misinformation, coupled with religious drama, are the real reasons why many SOA initiatives stall or fail ( Google SOA failures for some interesting reading).
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