Enterprise Architecture/Service Oriented Architecture – How To Mitigate Risk
1. Overview Implementing Enterprise Architecture (EA) together with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be very beneficial for an organization. Aligning the business and IT may reduce costs, lower risks, and help an organization become more agile. At the same time, wrongly implemented EA and SOA may...
Enterprise Architecture Supports Operational Consistency and Stability
Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivers models and processes that ensure consistency and stability of service operations. Gartner suggests, it often takes 18 months to two years to get the EA practice up and running, and another one to two years after that to develop and refine...
Why Vendors Should Not Drive the Architecture
Introduction Many organizations trying to reorganize their architecture rely strongly on IT departments and supporting architecture teams for driving and managing the architecture initiatives. For instance, in the world of SOA, very often the talk of the architecture leads to discussions on technical and organizational...
Enterprise Architecture -SOA benefits and risks
Overview The most fundamental challenge for most of organizations today has been an alignment between business and IT within an organization. The organizations struggle with the question of how to justify the IT budget, especially when there seems to be very little evidence stating that...
How Enterprise Architecture (EA) can help to leverage IT on Digitized Platform(s)
In 2002, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos circulated an important internal memo. In summary, it required every Amazon team to deploy open application programming interfaces and web services in order to facilitate data sharing and functionality. His explicit instruction was mandatory and explained that non-compliance would...
Successful SOA implementation approach
21 century introduced all companies to a globally digitized economy. Yet, so few companies benefit from the value of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in their enterprise. In fast pace, digitized economy inaccurate Enterprise Architecture (EA) creates business roadblocks that contribute to inefficiency and waste. Jeanne...
TOP 5 Reasons Why People Are Making SOA Fail
Before we start thinking about the reasons of failed SOA efforts, let’s define what the SOA is. The SOA (service-oriented architecture) is basically a collection of services that communicate with each other. The communication can involve either simple data passing or it could involve two or...