SOA Competency Planning And Educational Resources

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is here now; it's just not evenly distributed. In many organizations, enterprise architects are the first to investigate and understand SOA, but they then face the challenge of getting the rest of the organization up to speed. To make matters worse, SOA concepts, Web services specifications, and the SOA marketplace are all constantly evolving, which means that there are many conflicting views in the marketplace. In the end, the goal for architects is to get their organizations heading in the same direction with SOA, which requires education in the context of their organization's SOA strategy. Such education should combine multiple resources available in the marketplace. To that end, Forrester has assembled a collection of SOA competency best practices and an inventory of options and sample resources available in the market today.