SOEA - Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Making IT Governance easier.
Easing central overview of the IT Enterprise

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Place independent
Physical location can be changed runtime.

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Platform independence.
SOA can work across multiple platform through standard interfaces.

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Cut down in development cost.
The development cost will initially be higher, but will when the SOA matures be lover.

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Flexibility to interchangeably change from one service provider to another.
Integration is not only an internal issue.

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Easy integration with both inside and outside partners – cutting expense.
The ability to seamlessly integrate systems across platform and silos is by some seen as what SOA is all about.

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Creating real-time/on demand systems
The concept of the; “On Demand Business” is a concept trademarked by IBM. It is a parallel to the previous “Supporting “short lifetime” products” and the same comments apply here.

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Supporting “short lifetime” products
Reduced time to market (TTM) for new services/products.
Competition in the world is increasing, and the life time of products is decreasing. SOA promises the ability to fast support new products.
When expanding the number of services of an SOA a lot of the work has been done and can be reused. Which again entails short development cycles.

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Identifying services can help the business identifying the core businesses
The process of defining the processes of the business will be a good for analyzing the business.

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Concepts of the business must be defined in a unanimous way.
SOA requires a common data model.

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