SOA Strategy & IT Implementation
Application development often occurs in stovepipes, where business and technical staff are unable or unaccustomed to looking to the enterprise as a whole to identify existing applications and systems, technology, standards, and best practices that can foster reuse to reduce cost and effort.
The move to SOA is motivated by IT's need to rapidly adapt to changes in the business environment. The modular and technology-neutral nature of service-oriented applications fits well with a large spectrum of local, line of business, and enterprise-wide requirements. The evolving IT landscape in support of SOA includes many challenges: keeping track of services deployed and under development, change management and versioning, and service information sharing across hundreds of developers.
Development and deployment of service-oriented applications require a profound change in IT skills, processes and mindset. The strategic, long-term impact of SOA requires a review of the technical architecture to accommodate appropriate technologies (such as ESBs) and standards (e.g., Web services). Development, testing, quality assurance and change management processes must be reappraised so that they can deal with the complexity of developing applications that span multiple platforms and application subsystems. Most importantly, SOA requires a high degree of discipline and consistency in IT governance processes along an Enterprise IT Lifecycle.
Carnegie helps organization in the following areas:
Business Strategy - 1st Priority is CULTURE CHANGE!
- Identification of Opportunities for Information Consolidation & Standardization
- Use of EA to Recommend Opportunities for Modernization of Stovepiped Business Processes
- Creation of Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) for IT Operations Offices
- Architecture, Design, and Deployment of: Enterprise Service Bus, Web Services, Directory Services, Identity Management Services
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