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SOA Consortium Overview: “Where SOA Means Business”
Jon Siegel, PhD, OMGBurc Oral, PhD, CellExchange, Inc.
Third Service Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference, May 1-2, 2007, at MITRE: Responsibility to Provide Best Practices for An Information Sharing Environment - Bringing Together the Global
Information Grid, W3C, SOA Consortium, and Shared Services
1. SOA adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
2. Achieving the benefits of SOA requires significant changes for both IT and business executives
3. SOA is perceived by business executives as an IT integration and productivity story, but is really a business agility story
4. Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and industry-wide, SOA adoption.
Promoting Business-Driven SOA - Executive Suite SOA
• This strategy is focused on building awareness amongst C-level executives in the Global 1000* on the costs, value, challenges and success factors of moving to a SOA, with the goal of 75% of the Global 1000 built on SOA by 2010.
• This strategy employs an ‘influence the influencer’ model. The SOA Consortium works directly with CIOs, CTOs, Business and IT Influencers, and Business and IT Trade Groups, who carry forward the message of business-driven SOA to the executive suite.
* Government: 75% of Major Government Agencies, Mid size business: 50% of mid size businesses
Generating Business Value from SOA – Business Operations SOA
• This strategy is focused on providing methods, models, tools and connections for Business Professionals who are considering, or actively applying, business process management and SOA practices to resolve their business scenarios.
• Key Constituents:– Business Process Owners, Business Operations Managers,
Business Project Managers – Business Analysts and Architects – IT Project Managers and Solution Architects
3. Start an industry conversation on Business-IT Collaboration for Strategy and Architecture
– Collaboration with Enterprise Architecture 2010 Working Group
– Reinforces Business Architecture for Business Agility message
4. Participate in existing events covering BPM, Business Architecture, Six Sigma and Lean.
– Promoting content and message
– Connecting with existing communities
– BPM Think Tank in July
5. Establish a community of thought and practice leaders to provide insight tactics 1-3, share experiences and practices, and chart a community course.
• This Strategy is focused on Architects (enterprise, solution, domain, operations) and Senior Development and Delivery Managers (project, portfolio, quality) that need to understand how to sell, transition to, develop, exploit and support a SOA in practice.
• The central tactic is the Community of Practice (COP), supported by SOA Consortium events and publications aimed at the COP and their constituents.
1. Establish a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and industry-wide, SOA adoption.
– Open Practitioner Forum – An environment for the open exchange of ideas, opportunities and challenges posed by real-world SOA adoption. • Online, phone and standing agenda item at quarterly meetings
– Practitioner Working Groups - Collaborative efforts to produce artifacts practitioners can use in their environments. • Planning tools, templates, best practices, bad practices, methods, success
and failure stories, tips and patterns.
– Wiki-based collaboration environment
– NOT a Reference Architecture Group or a Standards Group • Will Share High Level Requirements with Standards Groups
• Enterprise Architecture 2010: The evolution of enterprise architecture organizations, architects, and practices in today’s business-driven, service-oriented world.
– The role of enterprise architecture in organizations
– The identification and attainment of non-technical traits and skills • leadership, influencing, business communication, business of IT
knowledge
– High-level enterprise architecture practices
– Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
• Blueprinting SOA– SOA Readiness– Service Design– SOA Solution Architectures– SOA Runtime– SOA Security– Information Architecture Impact– Architecture patterns
[Planning tools, templates, best practices, bad practices, success and failure stories, tips and patterns.]
• Facilitate the collection and dissemination of best practices, methods, patterns, anti-patterns and models from industry practice experts that collectively could comprise an ‘end-to-end’ SOA methodology.
• Industry Practice Areas:
• SOA Consortium Constituents:– Architects, Senior Development Managers, Business
4. Coordinate the sharing of information with standards organizations and other communities
– Federal Architect Council– FSTC SOA Working Group– Industry Advisory Council SOA Working Group– Integration Consortium– OASIS– OMG SOA SIG– Open Group– W3C