SOA - The Business View

What is service oriented architecture?

• Creating a common understanding of SOA
• The evolution of SOA
• Introduce the concepts of services and SOA
• Why businesses need to innovate
• SOA is not about web services
• How SOA enables innovation

The Business Impact of SOA

• The benefits of employing SOA
• Review of common business goals
• The risks associated with the SOA approach
• Evaluating trade off strategies

SOA Roadmap

• SOA maturity model
• The SOA adoption roadmap
• SOA expansion stages
• Start with the business
• Defining a business component model
• Identifying differentiators and commodity

The different Service types

• Categorizing services
• Enterprise services and Process centric services
• Data centric services and Logic centric services
• Intermediary services and application front ends
• Basic services

Modelling SOA building blocks

• Using UML to analyse service requirements
• Generating a domain model
• Service oriented analysis and design overview
• Identifying basic services
• Usage of sequence and activity diagrams
• The need for a structured analysis process

SOA Governance

• Aligning IT and Business through governance
• The importance of a repository
• Dependencies between services and business components
• Governance is not management
• Metrics, KPI's and continuous improvement
• Who sits on the SOA Board?

A Service Oriented Reference Model

• Reference models and reference architectures
• The OASIS reference model and architecture
• SOA vendors and their relationship with SOA
• SOA support in .NET and J2EE platforms

Case Studies

• A telecommunications firm
• The Vision, the strategy
• Choosing a Pilot project -setting expectations
• Setting up the SOA board
• Establishing a business component model
• Evaluating the Pilot's results and KPI's

Next Steps

• Avoiding the 'big bang' situation
• A phased approach with incremental improvements
• Understanding the SOA maturity model