<<A clear sign that SOA is facing up to the need to deliver business results comes in the release this month of the so-called SOA Maturity Model by a small team of SOA suppliers.
Developed by Sonic Software, Systinet, AmberPoint and BearingPoint, the Maturity Model is currently touring North America in a seminar series, and will be released to the public as a white paper on October 27th. It's a timely attempt to help people figure out where they are in their SOA strategies and how to get to the next stage. There's plenty of evidence around now that enterprises have started adopting web services and are persuaded of the need for SOA. But there's a lot of uncertainty about how to move on from there, as well as how to translate the concept of SOA into tangible business benefits that will sell the concept to decision makers outside the IT department. So what are the five layers, and at what stage are the majority of customers? Initial Services form the base layer. This is the classic first-level adoption of point-to-point web services integration as a means of testing out the technology and starting to understand what it can do. Architected Services take over when IT decides to get a grip on the emerging services infrastructure and impose an architectural framework that offers some consistency and reliability when bringing services together. The next layer is segmented into internal-facing Business Services and external-facing Collaborative Services. This is the point when SOA breaks out above the IT and applications infrastructure and becomes visible in the form of service-enabled business processes. Measured Business Services refers to what happens when the services created in the previous layer are monitored and analyzed to see how they and the business processes they power are performing. Optimized Business Services are the final result of feeding back the monitoring and analysis of level four to make improvements to the business services themselves. Rather than an end destination, this becomes an ongoing continuous cycle.>> No doubt many of you are involved in this. I like the idea of the computer industry taking maturity seriously; I have seen many examples of colleagues going from juvenile egomania to burnout with out any intervening period of maturity. Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
