SOA Introduction: Implementing a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Pilot Program

By consolidating and reusing common services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) offer many benefits to today's organizations. This Introduction to SOA will guide those pursuing SOA towards proven best practices to increase the likelihood of garnering the benefits of an SOA, faster and easier. The white paper will then present Actional's best practices for selecting and implementing a successful SOA pilot and then how to utilize the experience and lessons learned to migrate to an enterprise-class SOA.

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White Paper Abstract - SOA Introduction: An Incremental Approach

By consolidating and reusing services, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) offer many benefits to today's organizations. This SOA introduction will guide those pursuing SOA towards proven best practices to increase the likelihood of garnering the benefits of an SOA, faster and easier. The essay will then present Actional's best practices for selecting and implementing a successful SOA pilot and then how to utilize the experience and lessons learned to migrate to an enterprise class SOA. But before we move on to implementing SOA pilot projects, let us examine the progress of SOA in industry for a moment.

Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot

Day by day, company by company, IT organization by IT organization, today's enterprise is busy architecting for business solution agility and the alignment of key assets around the emerging Service Oriented Architecture umbrella. The ability to embrace SOA leads to the ability to rapidly capitalize on future IT investments and leverage existing technologies both inside and outside your organization. Many organizations will struggle as they seek to identify, implement and build on their first SOA forays into the new environment. This is unfortunate, as a number of best practices and lessons learned can be apply from the past and the growing SOA experience from technology providers and practitioners. As you work to extend IT capabilities utilizing SOA, a key for many of our enterprise customers is a pilot program which enables the greater understanding of methodological Web services deployment and service oriented architectures around a structured initiative.

Success is predicated on the fundamentals and insight collected within the following pages. Implementing a successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) pilot program clearly identifies the axioms and best practices that underlie achieving SOA objectives, regardless of size or scope. The pilot program offers an expandable approach to SOA, and is a strong foundation to the larger blueprint of a business driven architecture. You will find within the context of the following pages a concise understanding of the SOA reality and its application. The white paper provides a detailed understanding of the elements that comprise SOA, as well as techniques and practices for creating organization wide software integration solutions using SOA concepts.

Each organization will engage SOA differently and extract the greatest benefits based on their unique needs. Information and tools are the enablers that allow you to determine the best path.

The SOA corridor for success and failure will be paved by the development of an overarching strategy and its deployment across the corporate domains of people, process, technology and organizational requirements. The following information should prove highly useful as you navigate towards our SOA goals and objectives. I invite you to read and apply the well developed roadmap contained in this white paper.

— Alex Rosen, Principal, SOA Practice, MomentumSI

Learn the essentials to implementing successful SOA pilot programs: download the free webinar: Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program.

The SOA Introduction: IT and Business Perspectives whitepaper covers the following topics:

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Learn the essentials to implementing successful SOA pilot programs: download the free webinar: Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program