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Outdated business processes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)

SOA is something you do, not something you buy!
SOA is an ongoing endeavour
Focus on people and change is critical
Don’t try this without experienced help
The benefits far outweigh the risks

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Are You Ready For Soa

by Mike Kavis on Sep 22, 2008

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