The well respected industry analyst Dana Gardner has published an interesting article on The Soul of SOA that provides the highlights of a discussion between Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Tony Baer, and Jim Kobielus.
As usual, Joe McKendrick has come out with something original that makes a lot of sense when you think about it in the context of real world examples you might happen to know:
The companies that are most likely implementing, or are implementing, SOA are probably the companies that don't really need SOA as much. The companies that really could use SOA in their operations are likely not to be the ones implementing. It's kind of a paradox.
The reason (for) that is the companies that have the management vision, the support to roll out and move an SOA project forward -- providing top management support, for example -- are likely to have (a) lot of other initiatives on the table. They're likely to be very forward-looking with their management.
So the good IT departments, that probably have things under control anyway, are the ones that are proceeding with SOA. The poorer IT departments, that could probably get a higher ROI from SOA efforts, are not well organized enough to implement SOA.
PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software
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