The beginning of 2005, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become the most popular on the topic.
Industry pundits have been thinking about a wide range of issues and put forward all kinds of predictions. SOA became popular in 2005 is the year of it? It will be a customer of times you use SOA? SOA is the most exciting thing this year, the term everyone it? Will also become the most exaggerated terms it false?
Let me adding another: customers you really need SOA?
Almost all the discussion on SOA has focused on flexibility, the application is broken down into service, modular, re-use, increased availability and service management. SOA can be cut, to perform any tasks assigned by you, and do it faster, more efficient and cost than other methods used in the past come cheap. What all this mean? These discussions are usually more than words, does not touch the actual business really need to solve business problems or opportunities. This may lead to SOA into use only for the use of technology and technological risks. The last time this happens, causing the economy recession, now out of the hard-won information industry downturn, recovery.
Are there customers that they are most worried about is not with the application to build service? I am not much of a seen such a customer. The discussion around SOA ignore the customer really need to solve today's real business problems. Telecommunications companies and wireless service providers are concerned about the loss of customers. Help pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs day and night, trying to get drugs faster listing. Hope that medical records are able to update the hospital, so physicians need access to medical records at critical moments in time that is too Widespread.
We need to start different types of discussions. The focus of this discussion must be: solve real business problems, helping customers transition to a market environment can quickly respond to changing business demand changes, what is important. SOA can help achieve this goal, Ping Zhang is to provide an interoperability, adaptability and flexibility of industry standard architecture, but most importantly, is closely connected with the business. Almost any type of industry standards using the successful argument is applicable to all of the SOA. Standards make it easier to do business, and the efficiency of scale.
The interests of the SOA may appear ignorant of business leaders, may lose their competitive edge in the market, be more flexible and better use of emerging technologies such powerful competitors Chao Yue. SOA offers tremendous business value, analysts expect, just two years, enterprises in order to obtain the benefits of SOA, software and services will be 21 billion U.S. dollars investment.
SOA has been strategically placed in the center of business and technology junction, so that enterprises can quickly adapt to the changing environment. SOA for IT departments to keep up with the pace of business tasks, practice is the basic applications and IT systems to extract business processes and automate them. To separate business processes from IT, will have great commercial flexibility for business leaders to strengthen the control of internal transactions, and corporate and business partners, suppliers and even customers transactions.
Almost every company in each business process associated with the technology. With SOA, an organization can be on our staff, customers and business partners to provide services, not the program is so exclusive as the former put a lot of time and money. Because everyone follows the same set of standards, companies can quickly respond, elastic strain and competitive. Across the entire enterprise deployment of SOA, will release IT resources, helps to ensure that investment in technology to drive its growth concentrated in the core functions.
Customers begin construction of SOA must be based on business needs of line. Must develop a detailed plan, recognize companies in support of improved business processes required to join the service development or why, and set priorities. A company, or more specifically an IT department that is not just guesswork what services can bring the greatest added value, we must have systematic methods to enable them to develop out a blueprint for the implementation of service-oriented architecture.
This approach helps determine the business process model by setting the objective, and efficient way to produce the greatest results. Across the entire enterprise deployment of SOA, will release IT resources, helps to ensure that investment in technology to drive its growth concentrated in the core functions.
Back to the beginning of my problems, I doubt I will encounter this year or any future offer to non-SOA is not the customer. SOA is a blueprint, is a means to achieve goals. Customer needs is flexibility in order to extend extreme revenue to provide better customer service and reduce costs. SOA to help them achieve those goals is an industry standard.