Posted on Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am
SOA Success Stories Involve Business Process Management
SearchCIO
Companies are missing the boat on SOA success if they’re spending millions of dollars on a service-oriented architecture only to use it for application integration alone, analysts and practitioners say. Rather, today’s SOA success stories are in wider-reaching business process management (BPM) initiatives where, in some cases, even IT becomes organized along business process lines. A common misperception is that service-oriented architecture is a product or even a one-off project, when in actuality it’s not even a technology. Rather, a SOA implementation is an approach to IT and business transformation, and so must involve the business side and business process redesign — even though these initiatives, too, can face significant hurdles.
