Hammering out the Architecture
The "A" in SOA is often neglected. SOA should be deployed incrementally. But without a bird's-eye, architect's view, and SOA initiative is doomed to failure.
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Galen Gruman
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That just leads to a continuation of departmental silos, each with its own SOA, says Neal Ruskin, chief architect at TD Ameritrade. Any departmental SOA effort must be done in the context of the overall enterprise architecture so that all the incremental pieces actually work together over time. “You need to do end-to-end process identification and analysis first, before embarking on any specific project,” agrees Harish Iyers, a senior solution architect at Tata.
Galen Gruman is contributing editor at InfoWorld.
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