SOA FUNDAMENTALS
An understanding of the fundaments of SOA is essential. CBDI has collated the following sequence of reports into one as a core basis for understanding and adopting
SOA that should be read by all those involved from managers to developers, both in IT and those in the business such as business analysts responsible for communicating requirements and ensuring IT support to their business domain.
Understanding SOA
Back to Basics with Service Oriented Architecture. If there was a hit parade of IT acronyms, SOA or Service Oriented Architecture would surely be number one. Yet for all the media comment, how many really understand what SOA is?
In this report we provide a concise explanation that we anticipate will baseline the subject.
Principles of Service Orientation
In this report we outline the key principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the Service Oriented Process (SOP)
The Business Case for SOA
An Introduction to SOA for Business Managers. In this report we present the business case and argue that SOA is a powerful tool for business reengineering, and that it is essential for senior business managers to become engaged in this critical activity.
Towards the Service Oriented Organization
Understanding, Planning and Managing the Organizational Change Implicit in Service Oriented Architecture. In this report we provide guidance in understanding and managing the organizational change required and enabled by SOA.
Enterprise Framework for SOA
The enterprise architecture framework is widely used as a mechanism to manage the development and evolution of architectures. In this article we introduce a generic approach to integrating the SOA framework requirements with existing frameworks.
Establishing a Service Lifecycle
In this report we take a look at the "soup-to-nuts" lifecycle of Services, considering the types of information that need to be gathered by and exchanged between the various participants, and explore some of the reasoning for taking a broader view of Service than just the run-time deployment of Web Services.
Service Supply - A Fundamental Shift in Development Practice?
Envisioning the convergence of CBD and SOA thinking to create a genuinely service oriented supply environment. The creation and utilization of services is not a purely development centric activity, rather it is a process centric activity in which multiple parties collaborate to achieve a common purpose. Contrary to popular opinion the activities of service development and provisioning represent a radical departure from existing best practices, component based or otherwise. In this report we provide an introduction and conceptual model for service oriented supply.
Business Modeling for SOA
In this report, we lay out the CBDI business modeling method for SOA Business analysts
Composite Applications
In developing Service Oriented Architecture strategy, a primary concern is how to protect existing application investments while enabling real improvements in adaptability. An increasingly popular approach is to deliver new functionality that reuses services from many existing applications and sources, so called Composite Applications. But not surprisingly there are many issues with this inherently compromise architectural pattern and in this report we will look at the architectural options, discuss the many issues and look at how some users have overcome these.
Save Our Assets
Strategies for Reusing Existing and Legacy Applications as Services. In this report we examine the opportunities and approaches, and assess the suitability of existing systems to participate in new Web Service scenarios.
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