Pursuing SOA In Hard Times

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been the hot topic in enterprise application architecture for the past five years. SOA has become mainstream, and nearly half of enterprises use SOA for strategic business transformation. But now, as the economy triggers budget cutbacks and reevaluation of strategic initiatives, all discretionary investments are subject to challenge, including SOA. How should hard times affect your SOA strategy? What are the elements of a strong SOA strategy that enable it to endure hard times? The answers are found in your overall manner of architecture management and how you apply it to SOA. This session walks through the elements of good SOA strategy and governance that embody strong architecture management and that give your SOA strategy the flexibility it needs to not only survive but also to thrive in hard times.

Agenda:

• SOA's flexibility applies as much to how you do SOA as to what you build with SOA.
• Hard times emphasize the key focal points of SOA governance.
• SOA strategy should be fundamentally rooted in strong architecture management.
• Key SOA strategies for hard times include process focus, street-level strategy, SOA governance, and portfolio management.