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SOA's five benefits in one picture
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By: Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director, Macehiter Ward-Dutton Published: 8th January 2008 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License |
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In recent discussions with one customer, I ended up drawing a series of little pictures to try and summarise the five potential benefits that can come from pursuing SOA. It seemed to work for them, so I thought I'd reproduce it here and see what our readers think.
In order to test the old adage that a picture speaks 1,000 words, I'm not going to write a whole lot to explain what the diagram is showing: if it's a good diagram then you should be able to work that out pretty quickly. Of course, if I get an avalanche of comments asking for an explanation then (1) of course, I'll post one; and (2) it's not as cute a diagram as I thought it was!
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10th January 2008: 'Don Tirsell' said:
This is a great way to communicate the upper half of an SOA. While I agree that the consumption side of SOA drives many of the benefits, success is contingent on having a well managed data infrastructure too.
Regards,
Don Tirsell
Informatica Corporation
12th January 2008: 'Mark Sheldon' said:
Very useful explanation. A further benefit may be capital appraisal and being able to prioritise investment
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