<<I Hope that this write-up may give some kind of suggestion for business holders and IT decision maker to move into SOA. Adopting SOA is most important decision for the organization whose IT systems are in non-SOA because it might change the entire organization's approach and structure. Also there should be some strong reasons for choosing SOA as IT strategy since it requires to align your IT and business processes. Here are top 10 reasons for adopting Service Oriented Architecture.
If you have strong long-term vision and business strategy to align your business process and IT systems to achieve higher control on your business. SOA adoption requires times to align your IT systems to give higher support for your business. If you are an acquirer and merger, having roadmap to expand your business and investments by acquiring other corporate, then SOA is the right choice to bring the acquired business process into your control rapidly. Service based integration has better control in integrating various system and process by standard approach. Do you have planned to modernize your IT infrastructure and business systems to accommodate to support your business growth with minimal IT investment? SOA is the tight choice to integrate all your legacy and packaged system into a single standard business system. If your business processes are unpredictable, keep changing over period, drive by business partners and vendors. You would have paid heavy IT investment for keep updating your business systems to accommodate changes. You must go for SOA adoption since service based architecture gives better control to update your processes without much impact in other systems and cost. If your IT infrastructure has isolated business systems and packages, you would be investing most of your IT budget to share data across your business systems by storage devices, papers and human resources. Service based integration is the right choice for you to share data across your business systems by standard mechanism. Standard based approach and implementation is best solution for enterprises instead of proprietary API and formats. SOA's fundamental principle suggests following open standards. If your IT policies suggest following open standards, SOA is the better option to achieve your compliance. Do you want to decouple your application business logic and reassemble your business system, SOA migration would be the best option. Once you migrate your existing distributed system into SOA, future business align can be made much easier and faster. SOA ensures best ROI for your IT investment. Service oriented architecture ensures to reuse the services which will eliminate your investment for reinvesting wheel. This economic slowdown instructed us to count each $ before invest. If your business board has strong policies of low invest and high ROI, SOA could be the only option. SOA best suited for you if your are in or your business associated with FMCG, Banking, Retail, Telecom, Media, and Finance and Insurance service providers. The point is, if your business process interacting with many third party vendors and partner, you would need service based solution. If you already have web service and standards, SOA governance and implementation lifecycle would be the only option to have better control managing your service infrastructure. It is not necessary that all the above points should match your requirement to decide on SOA adoption. These are the major points that can help you to consider SOA adoption as one of the solution for your IT requirement.>> You can read this blog at: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/soa-governance/top-10-reasons-for-soa-adoption-29385 Gervas
