Progress Software Corporation CTO, Hub Vandervoort, there is a simple and direct way to measure the success of SOA, IT --- check the level of orders.
Hub noted that the deployment of SOA in the company, the total order requests are beginning to cut IT. The company saw the project cycle time and significant reduction in procurement across the enterprise.
IT can serve as a measure of order to reduce a company's SOA implementation efficiency and return on investment of interesting metrics. Hub proposal, focusing on the arrival rate, analysis from the business lines of revenue streams, and consider re-cycle the length of time. Hub said: "If you see many of the figures are falling, and become more continuous, which indicates the company is beginning to point to a higher goal of reuse and flexibility."
Hub, another recommendation is to adopt a "Laser Focus" approach to look at corporate current business problems.
Hub For example, a company using the purchasing power of their SOA, and annual savings of 40 million U.S. dollars. The project has not sold as a SOA project --- the contrary, it is defined as a procurement consolidation efforts. Manufacturers in fact, "at the firm level from 136 to buy all the raw materials the factory," Hub said. This purchasing power has been consolidated into a single service. Now, manufacturers these 136 suppliers of raw materials as an organic whole. This allows the manufacturer the demand side of the supply chain in a year can largely reduce the expenditure of 40 million U.S. dollars. SOA to enable them to obtain these kinds of benefits, Hub explained