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Wednesday 17th September 2003
COMMENTARY: SOE - SERVICE ORIENTED EVERYTHING?
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NEW RESOURCE - CBDI WEB SERVICES ROADMAP PRESENTATIONS.
To help you plan and manage the move to Web Services and SOA, this week we are pleased to announce the availability of a further resource for our Corporate (Gold) subscribers by making the contents of all the current CBDI Web Services Roadmap reports available as PowerPoint Presentations. Over 100 fully scripted PowerPoint slides in 12 presentations enabling you to discuss, formulate and communicate your own organizations plans with your colleagues.
Presentations now available to CBDI Corporate (Gold) Members
| ABSTRACT: The plethora of Service Oriented acronyms appearing is a sure sign that Service Orientation is the “next big thing”. But successful adoption of SOx and Web Services will not happen by a process of osmosis. Consequently, CBDI provides a further valuable resource to help you roll them out across your organization
COMMENTARY
The plethora of Service Oriented acronyms appearing is a sure sign that Service Orientation is the “next big thing”. As with Object Orientation, expect Service Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Analysis and Design, etc., to take centre stage with developers in the near future. Already some vendors are telling us to “watch out for SOx” as their product plans begin to take shape, whilst analysts rush to each invent their own SOxx acronyms in typical “we thought of it first” style.
Whatever the acronym, successful adoption of SOx and Web Services will not happen by a process of osmosis, simply allowing technology to drive Service Orientation from the bottom up. At a recent workshop we held for a large global company it was evident pockets of Web Service adoption were springing up across the organization often with little visibility between one group and another. This is not unexpected, and should not be looked upon as a bad thing or discouraged. In this case the individual results were successful, and as ever it is often preferable that people prove for themselves that new ideas work rather than have it dictated to them from on high.
However, there comes a point at which the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and consistency in approach, sharing and reuse, and corporate governance is required. For example, in our Roadmap report “Assembling the Web Services Infrastructure”, we point out some specific needs of the large enterprise. Such as issuing Web Service protocol usage and interoperability standards to ensure enterprise wide interoperability and integration, or ensuring a common security policy is implemented.
Additionally, the adoption of Web Services is at present predominantly from the bottom up. Programmers are implementing Web Service protocols to improve the integratablity of their applications. But whilst this loose coupled approach might remove technology dependencies, is the application, or more to the point, the business any more adaptable to change than it was before? OK, so now we can change platforms with ease, but can the business change their process or partners any more rapidly than before? That is, have the services been designed with business agility or just technical agility in mind?
These examples demonstrate two dimensions on which organizations need to plan and manage the adoption of Web Services and SOA across the enterprise. Horizontally across all divisions, and vertically through all disciplines from IT operations to the business itself.
The CBDI Web Services Roadmap initiative is designed to help organizations properly manage the shift to Web Services and SOA. We provide the roadmap in recognition that this shift is a journey that won’t happen overnight, but now it is evident the take up of Web Services is accelerating it looks like a good time to start.
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