<<We at SearchSOA.com
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/home/0,289692,sid26,00.html> have a
number of SOA user stories in the works at the moment and it strikes me
that we could just about churn out a case study a day at this point in
time. Last month at the IBM Impact conference, I blogged
<http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/10/ibm-showing-off-soas-impact/>that
seemingly every type of business imaginable has been embracing service
orientation.
We're encountering more big SOA projects than ever before and you've got
to wonder what the working rationale is these days for an app dev
project that isn't loosely coupled and conformant with an enterprise
architecture. What's the counter argument? Obviously it can be less
expensive in the short term and less complex to throw applications
together in piecemeal fashion, but over time that approach becomes
costly. It's also a mess from an engineering standpoint.
Here are some of the most recent examples:
* Cars.com turned to SOA
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1310994,00.html>
to help it with rapid growth
* Deutsche Post used service orientation
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1310001,00.html>
to blend Java and .NET apps in a CRM system
* Con-way plans on building mobile apps
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1308696,00.html>
for its transportation fleet based on the composite development
its pursued over the past decade
* Business process orchestration has become a key
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1308224,00.html>
for online real estate company Move Inc.
* SOA taught the Delaware Electric Cooperative
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1307332,00.html>
the importance of BPM
* Insurance industry information provider MIB Inc. rebuilt its
entire business around SOA
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1299626,00.html>
You can find links to 18 other SOA case studies in our top stories of
2007 compilation
<http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1287731,00.html>.
The number of users who can document proven success with SOA is
exploding. Does it deliver as advertised in every situation? No, nothing
does and that's why we go out and try to find the users with best
practices to share. This is a complex field, but the ranks of users
who've found the benefits justify tackling the complexity are growing
almost daily.
Here's a question for those who don't count SOA as a core competency in
their app dev shop: why?>>
You cna find this at:
http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/19/look-whos-using-soa/?track=NL-130&ad=641022&asrc=EM_USC_3674889&uid=5532089
Gervas
