Web services are clearly the most promising technology for distributed computing and systems integration. But, there are many reasons that go beyond technology. You have to build a framework for thinking about web services adoption in your organization that can bring some of the benefits of the technology without exposing you to unnecessary risk and expense. I think you need a help from external consultant. Don't try to step down the SOA road without such help. Specially, in your industry since in Teleco , the major problem is that business is the technology and the technology is the business.
It is time to adopt web services in the organizations now but do not invest in technology in the beginning. Technology is not the problem. You don't need to have an organization wide SOA rollout, and you don't have to re engineer legacy systems that work well. However, you need to build the web services skill set in your company, because the technologies hold great promise for solving some of the tough(not all of course) problems facing IT. The technologies that are available in the market, either vendor or open source products, have achieved capabilities, scalability, ..etc., and ready to be used. I think a lot of projects in the teleco industry can benefit from application of web services, specially the network convergence. I think you will find customer data found in wirline, wireless and cabel. Try to build a unified view of your customer. You will learn too much. All the best Ashraf Galal On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Fakhar Imran <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > This is Fakhar from Pakistan, I am working for local Telecom company. > > I've been assigned to work on the in-house Application Development for > our business requirements and I was thinking about presenting SOA for > design and implementation for new Software Development. > > Right now our SW development is not very mature and my fellows are not > aware of benifits of SOA (that also includes me :-)). I was wondering how > to convince for this grand shift as we are right now using .NET and > client-server model . > > Thanks, > > Fakhar Imran > > >
