Are You Ready For Soa

What you need to know before you start! Mike Kavis Kavis Technology Consulting 9/22/08

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Today’s Discussion

Introductions

What is SOA?

Case Studies

Why Governance is Critical

The SOA Journey

Summary

Q & A

Mike Kavis

23 years of IT experience

Chief Architect – 3 years

Executive Leadership – 10 years

EA, BPM, SOA – 3 years

Industries

Loyalty Marketing

CPG

Health

Retail

Manufacturing

Government

Mike Kavis

Education

BS Comp Science - RIT

MSIT – Colorado Tech

MBA – Colorado Tech

Writing

CIO.com SOA Drilldown

SOAInstitute.org

Appnexus (Cloud Startup)

Technology Blog

Mike Kavis

Public Speaking - Upcoming

SOA Consortium – 9/24-9/25

EDM Summit – 10/26-10/30

Public Speaking - Past

Podcast ZDNet – 6/22

Gartner AADI – 6/11

Practical SOA Conference – 3/25

What SOA is….

Service – a functional building block that is independent from platforms, programming languages , and physical location (Source: Wikipedia)

Service-Orientation – design paradigm that specifies the creation of automation logic in the form of services (Source: Wikipedia)

Architecture - SOA is an architectural strategy for enabling and automating business solutions

Why all the hype?

The SOA promise – Reuse, Flexibility, Agility

Beginning Stage Maturity Increases

Why all the hype?

The SOA promise – Reuse, Flexibility, Agility

Tipping point -Shift from creating to assembling services

SOA Use Cases

Rejuvenate Legacy Systems

Connect to Partners, Suppliers, Customers

Expose existing services

Automate business processes across application silos

Layered Approach to a loosely coupled Architecture

SOA can seamlessly integrate systems and processes independent of underlying technologies and physical locations

One customer order can trigger events to numerous systems, partners, suppliers, and destinations

What SOA is NOT ….

Web Services – Beware of JABOWS

Something you buy – It’s something you do!

A project – It’s a journey, an evolution

The “A” stands for Architecture!!!

Catalogue Retailer

30 year old mainframe systems

No online presence

Lacked internal skills

Solution

Hired .Net developers to build UI

Extended mainframe through integration layer

Substantially improved revenue w/ecommerce

Loyalty Marketing Company

Outdated business processes

Slow order cycles

Declining customer satisfaction

Solution

Invested in BPMS tools and process reengineering

Built new composite UI and extended legacy

Tapped into BI tools

Huge cost savings and revenue increases

Startup Saas vendor

Needed to build open, standard product

Needed to integrate w/multiple vendors

Agility and flexibility as a competitive advantage

Solution

SOA from the ground up

Hired the right talent

Went from concept to production in 1 year

Competitors will take years to catch up

What is Governance?

“ Ensuring and validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are acting as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality.”

Source: Gartner

SOA without Governance …..

"Doing lots of little Web services projects all over the place with no governance isn't SOA, it's just playing.” Source: Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group

“ Without that governance, your SOA is going to spiral into chaos" Source: Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group “ Governance is no longer optional - it's imperative” Source: SOA World

Design-Time Governance – “Building the Airplanes”

“ focused on the application of policies for governing the design, development and deployment of services and supporting artifacts. It is of primary concern to business analysts, architects, project teams and developers.”

Source: Weblayers

Run-Time Governance – “Running the Control Tower”

“ Continuous management and optimization of service lifecycle including change management, SLAs, service monitoring, impact analysis, etc.”

Source: Amberpoint

Property of Kavis Technology Consulting SOA is an Architecture…You are never finished! Successful SOA initiatives address more than Technology

SOA makes life simpler for the end users BUT…..

SOA adds complexities in IT

Testing becomes much more involved

Security requires more protection

Requires discipline and standards

Shift from coding to software engineering

Property of Kavis Technology Consulting Top 10 Reasons why SOA Fails 1. Fail to explain the business value of SOA 2. Underestimate the impact of organizational change 3. Fail to secure strong executive sponsorship 4. Attempt to do SOA “on the cheap” 5. Lack the required skills to deliver SOA

Property of Kavis Technology Consulting Top 10 Reasons why SOA Fails 6. Poor project management 7. Think of SOA as a project not an architecture 8. Underestimate the complexity of SOA 9. Fail to implement and adhere to SOA governance 10. Let the vendors drive your architecture

Property of Kavis Technology Consulting Top 10 Areas to Address 1. Build Strong Business Case 2. Organizational Readiness Assessment 3. Secure strong executive support 4. Secure appropriate funding 5. Identify experienced IT leader

Property of Kavis Technology Consulting Top 10 Areas to Address 6. Create SOA Roadmap 7. Create Resource Plan 8. Create Training Plan 9. Develop Org. Change Mgmt Plan 10. Perform Vendor Assessment(s)