Digital Common Sense

I’ve written in the past about SOA initiatives. At the enterprise customer level, we don’t seem to hear a lot about this. But the developer community and solutions providers behind the scenes are constantly workiin on tighter integration.

Last week I noticed that even unified communications is being talking about in terms of unified applications and services.

In the past I’ve linked to an article or two written by colleague James Maguire on SOA. Well, he’s posted another.

SOA the Easy Way (If That’s Possible)

By James Maguire

In a research report about getting started with Service Oriented Architecture, Forrester analyst Randy Heffner warned that SOA strategy “carries heavy risks of being overly theoretical and academic.”

That is undoubtedly true, as plenty of companies have learned. Attempting to implement a ‘grand vision’ for SOA can be unwieldy enough to swamp the enterprise in myriad complexities.

For many companies, the question becomes: how can we realize the promise of SOA without developing and following an exhaustive 400-page platform plan?

In the word, Heffner says, the concept to keep in the forefront is “evolutionary.”
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It’s only a couple of pages, but contains some really key points to keep i mind as you look at SOA deployment. Highly recommended.

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