How does SOA unlock frozen assets and align business with IT?
Stan Alexander: The first step is to examine your application portfolio and identify the assets that could become reusable services. This inventory will likely show redundant assets in multiple locations. However, the true ‘unlocking’ comes when you are able to discover and share these services across a network and tie them into a business process. This coupling of BPM with SOA allows the value of that software asset to be shared across multiple silos. And when IT and business begin sharing a common understanding of the business process, then they begin to become truly aligned. Malhar Kamdar: SOA has the promise of delivering: • Applications are componentised into business services • ervices can be combined and reused more quickly in the assembly of new and loosely coupled business processes and composite applications • The promise is there to drive positive ROI by reducing costs and increasing agility over time However, just by building out services that can be reused does not necessa
