Automation: A New Imperative for SOA Application Success - SOA World Magazine
"For several years, software vendors have been creating development and infrastructure products for the latest IT architecture style - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Recognizing the immense value SOA can bring to IT, companies like BEA, IBM, and Microsoft have delivered products to help customers design and build SOA-based applications. These vendor-driven initiatives are beginning to sprout actual customer-developed applications that are built on the promise of SOA, such as better flexibility, agility and reuse."
Service Oriented Architecture is a powerful concept. It allows IT organizations and their related business organizations to work more efficiently. SOA applications will be more prevalent and managing them will remain critical. There are specific steps organizations can take to make SOA management work for them:
1) Make management a priority: Management shouldn't be an afterthought. Make sure that it's budgeted for when pulling together SOA projects - both in time and money.
2) Make a new decision: Managing SOA is a new problem, one that deserves true evaluation. You might decide to use one of your existing APM vendors, but don't just write them in. SOA presents unique challenges that existing tools find difficult to solve.
3) Start small: SOA is a change in philosophy that creates barriers to success. Don't add more by trying to run multiple applications out of the gate. Like other technology breakthroughs, your chances of success increase when dealing with a single problem.
4) Assume nothing: Don't assume that what you deploy is architected and coded like you designed it. Get runtime information to help determine what the real architecture looks like.
5) Communicate, communicate, communicate! Involve all of the key stakeholders and often. It's important for executives to see the value in the project, for line-of-business managers to see that their applications will run better, for IT management to see efficient operations, and for developers to see innovation. Keep them all in the loop from start to finish.
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Gary E. Smith
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