| Title: |
SOA Operational Infrastructure Adoption Roadmap |
| Author: |
Lawrence Wilkes |
| Publication Date: |
22 June 2006 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
Providing the necessary operational infrastructure is one of the core activities in SOA adoption. As with other capabilities, an organization’s SOA Infrastructure is likely to mature in stages, and this report looks at the drivers for the capabilities required in line with the CBDI SOA Maturity Model, and considers the Operational Infrastructure Steam of the CBDI Forum SOA Adoption Roadmap.
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| Backgrounder: |
In many fields, putting an infrastructure in place seems a natural precursor to other activities. In city planning it would seem sensible for example to put utilities such as power, water, communications and transport in place before building housing and places of work. Most often though, cities do not evolve in a nice orderly fashion and infrastructure is often a response rather than a precursor to growth. The cost of retrofitting infrastructure can be an order of magnitude more expensive and complicated than implementing it in advance. Though infrastructure will inevitably need to be upgraded, this can still be accommodated in the initial plan to minimize the impact of subsequent change.
As with other fields, the challenge for IT infrastructure is getting the balance right. For example:
Providing sufficient infrastructure to meet immediate needs without over investing to support future scenarios that may never be realized, or providing wasteful levels of resources that remain underutilized
Allowing parts of the organization the freedom to diverge in some areas of policy, whilst rigorously ensuring compliance in others |
| Report Size: |
8 pages |
| Report Access Type: |
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