| Title: |
Business Modeling for SOA: Examples from the Automotive Industry |
| Author: |
Richard Veryard |
| Publication Date: |
11 August 2005 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
In our occasional series of reports on SOA in different vertical industry sectors, we turn our attention this month to the automotive sector. As with previous reports in this series, we believe our findings will be useful to both insiders and outsiders.
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| Backgrounder: |
Ever since the days of Henry Ford himself, the automotive industry has been a pioneer and early adopter of new production methods and technologies. The modern automobile contains an almost frightening quantity of software – so much so that software maintenance and liability issues are coming to play an increasingly dominant role in the auto industry.
But while there are many separate initiatives going on within the major auto manufacturers and their supply/distribution ecosystems, a lot of these initiatives are still rather disconnected. There are a number of technology silos – EDI, RFID, telematics, and so on – but with little exploitation of the potential synergy between these technologies.
A number of case studies of SOA within the automotive industry have been published, and there are some important initiatives underway. But these mostly describe tactical uses of SOA, to integrate specific parts of the business process (notably the supply/distribution chain). To date, there is less evidence of strategic uses of SOA within the industry, to achieve genuinely "on-demand" motoring through synergies across the existing process domains and technology silos.
In this article, we review the current state-of-the-art, and outline a roadmap for future developments within and beyond the automotive industry. |
| Report Size: |
9 pages |
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