Beschrijving

Federal agencies’ quest for efficiency, interoperability, and collaboration is expediting their adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable the cost-effective development, reuse, and modification of mission and business services. Standards-based technologies such as XML and web services are making it easier and less expensive to use SOA as a tool of agency transformation. There’s no doubt that SOA promises big benefits. For agencies that implement it successfully, it will drive productivity, eliminate redundancy, and promoteinteroperability that translates into world-class management operations. As the promise of SOA is great, so is its risk. Developing, deploying, and maintaining quality applications and services has never been a simple task. In the intricately interconnected world of SOA—with multiple technology stacks, platforms, and legacy systems—it is many times more complex.

If IT operations groups fail to cope with the complexity and to manage not only the entire SOA lifecycle but the organizational relationships involved as well, they’ll end up delivering low-quality services that proliferate throughout the enterprise, jeopardizing crucial business outcomes, and destroying the trust internal business customers should have in IT. How will they cope? Architects need to consider the management implications of SOA early in the lifecycle so that they can avoid the risks; and IT needs to implement a strategy for discovering, monitoring, managing, and controlling SOA environments.