SOA, Web 2.0, and
Open Technology
Technology will Change some Key Competencies of the
Defense Integrator
Jim Stogdill
CTO, ANSS Mission Services
Accenture
james.stogdill@accenture.com

As we go from...

This:

To This:
JAOC
DCGS
TACP
ASOC

Or This:

Q:
What will a company that is
well positioned to compete
in an era of networked
systems look like?

Discontinuity
• Ubiquitous networks, SOA, Web 2.0, and
Open Technology are weaving platforms
together into ecosystems of capability.
• It’s no longer enough to just know what
your program is doing. It has to connect.

Thesis:
In the Shift from Systems to
Ecosystems
Companies that
Collaborate will do better

Or, to put it another
way...
Wang PC
Closed Architecture Open Architecture

Pain!
From USAF Acquisition:

Did that sound
like a happy
customer?

This presentation is
supposed to be about
SOA
Web 2.0
Open Technology...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):
Is an architectural approach in which
systems expose capability via well
defined service interfaces (often as Web
Services) whose goals are cross
platform / cross language
interoperability and loose coupling
between participating systems.

Huh?

The Overly
Simple System
Integration
View

The Overly
Simple Data
Integration
View

You might be
thinking...
“Really Can’t Say that
Helped Much”

A back of the envelope (literally)
commercial SOA example

The Pre-SOA Air Operations
Center

Using SOA to integrate Line of
Business Applications

Composite Applications and
Workflows
Note: these
connections
span
programs

The SOA-Connected
Enterprise

Web 2.0 (or just “the web”) is the business
revolution in the computer industry
caused by the move to the Internet as
platform, and an attempt to understand
the rules for success on that new platform.
Chief among those rules is this: Build
applications that harness network effects
to get better the more people use them.”

Web 2.0 Patterns
• Harness collective intelligence: architecture
of participation
• Data as platform
• Rich user experience
• Software not tied to a single device
• Perpetual beta
• Leverage the long tail

What it might look like

Open Technology Development
combines advances in the following areas:
1. Open Standards and Interfaces
2. Open Source Software and Designs
3. Collaborative / Distributive culture and
online tools
4. Technological Agility

When?
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Documentation
Source SOSCOE is the glue that holds FCS together...
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If you are Proprietary
standing Lock In
here...
... go ahead
and
push!

Bringing it back...

New competencies, signals...
• They don’t hesitate to use standard SOA interfaces
on their projects despite anti-lock-in impact.
• They regularly use open source in projects for their
customers.
• They already have programmers that contribute
regularly to open source projects
• They use collaborative tools within the enterprise
and external to it: Wikis, shared code repositories,
chat and irc, mailing lists,...
• They are comfortable with agile methods.
• They recognize the value of data
• They add well understood web-oriented public API’s
to their projects.

Thanks!