If you look to any SOA definition you will find that it is based on web services technology, in most cases. When they start to think about a unifying view of customer, from the IT point of view, they will find that they must involve the business with them. Remeber that there are top-bottom approach (your openion), Bottom-up and a mix between them.
Because SOA is focused on building applications using components with well defined interfaces. In addition, in SOA approach, the designer is not building a program, a functional unit for one purpose/use only, rather, they are building a service that has a well-defined interface and that can potentially be used in multiple business contexts. All the best Ashraf Galal On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Michael Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > "Web services are clearly the most promising technology for distributed > computing and systems integration" - is absolutely true but... have very > little to do with service orientation, i.e. with SOA. Web Services > are standard-based interfaces, nothing more. > > SOA starts from Business, not from IT. > > - Michael > > ------------------------------ > *From:* A W <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Saturday, January 3, 2009 2:54:10 AM > *Subject:* Re: [service-orientated-architecture] How to start SOA in > Organization > > 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 <fakharimran77@ > yahoo.com<[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 >> >> > > >
