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February 16, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band?

On the 23rd, I'm participating in a Webinar entitled: Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band? You can register here. You have to admit it's a compelling topic.

Here is the description:

"Enterprise Architecture and SOA implementations share a common goal: to create a logical, efficient, flexible and reusable operating environment for the enterprise. What isn't always clear is how to get there.

Two camps have emerged: one is driven broadly from an enterprise architecture perspective and the other focuses on implementing SOA project-by-project. Whichever gets the ball rolling, industry observations suggest that the end result is best when organizations maintain both perspectives.

At one end, the EA approach tends to emphasize coordination, strategic alignment, process, transformation, broader scope, and global value delivery. At the other, the SOA crowd emphasizes speed, discipline and a pragmatic rapid delivery philosophy. In between, both care about extensibility, reliability, quality and performance, among other important considerations. Governance, whether called EA, IT or SOA, is the wild card and must be addressed for it all to work."

Show up, support me. :-)

Posted by Dave Linthicum on February 16, 2007 05:21 AM


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"Does EA lead the band? Enterprise Architecture and SOA implementations share a common goal... Industry observations suggest that the end result is best when organizations maintain both perspectives".

The answer is in the scoping of the architecture development.

EA addresses the whole Enterprise, although in practice it is often limited to an Enterprise wide IT architecture.
SOA, approached on a "project by project basis" has a limited scope compared to the EA.
SOA, as an architectural style and technology stack, can be adopted by any system development project not only by an Enterprise Architecture.

EA may be developed without SOA and SOA may be implemented without implementing the EA.

To compare the approaches SOA must be taken first in the context and scope of an EA development.
In this context, SOA is the architectural style and the IT technology chosen for the development of the To-Be Enterprise Architecture e.g. a SO target Enterprise Architecture. SOA does not apply to As-Is or specifically aims to align technology to business strategy, although there should be requirements in that sense.
Once, SOA is adopted at the Enterprise level, an EA program is on-going, SOA projects would be executed as a portfolio.

Sorry, cannot not participate in the webinar.

Posted by: Adrian at February 19, 2007 03:55 PM

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