| Title: |
SOA Service Benefit Patterns |
| Author: |
Lawrence Wilkes |
| Publication Date: |
22 March 2006 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
We are often asked how to justify investment in SOA. In examining many case studies we can see that the benefits provided by the delivery of Services can be synthesized into one or more of the patterns that are examined in this report.
To help justify ROI, CBDI has developed a set of SOA patterns that address both short and long term benefits to both the business and IT.
As many Services will combine more than one of these patterns it should be possible to illustrate how the long term benefits of some Services are often combined with short term benefits that can be used to justify investment. |
| Backgrounder: |
Organizations provide or consume Services for many different reasons. On one hand there may be relatively obvious business requirements such as joining up different participants to improve and automate information flows across a supply chain to optimize the business process. On the other, Services may be used to deliver structural improvements to the IT systems portfolio and the use of such Services can be fairly transparent to the business.
The challenge is understanding the range of benefits provided by a Service in order to justify ROI. In the first case, the benefits should be immediate and apparent to the business. However, in the second the benefits to the business may be less direct and long term.
Ideally, organizations should be seeking both as a reason for adopting SOA. That is, both immediate and apparent benefits to the business, and less direct and long term benefits to the business (and usually to IT). However, in our experience it can be more difficult to convince business stakeholders to invest in long term return.
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| Report Size: |
9 pages |
| Report Access Type: |
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