It’s a question we’re asked a lot: How do I get started with SOA?
There is uniform agreement that SOA holds great promise as a strategy for
improving business agility, better aligning IT and the business, and
increasing overall IT efficiency. And developing an SOA strategy has become a
key issue for most large enterprises: CTOs in a 2007 McKinsey survey ranked
SOA as their top strategic item.
Yet despite this, organizations struggle with how to start the transformation
to SOA, especially in assessing their business readiness. For every
organization that successfully adopts SOA and can testify to its benefits,
there are others whose SOA initiatives have failed to deliver sustained
business value, or have stalled. What does it really take to be successful
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