SOEA - Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture

CBDI has in their December journal continued the work on their SOA Maturity Model. Interestingly I made the same exercise 6 months ago during the writing of my master thesis, and I am happy to say that CBDI and I arrived at pretty much the same conclusion.

What the article illustrates is that SOA Maturity Models are emerging from many places – demonstrated in the post “SOA Maturity Model…Yes…Another One”.

Hopefully we will see some alignment between the SOA Maturity Models, but even if we do it is my conception that we don’t need a separate Maturity Model for SOA and EA. The challenge is to have one model that covers both EA and SOA. I elaborate on this in chapter 7.5 of my thesis.

EA and SOA shares the same goals, so why go separate ways. I recognize that a Maturity Model is not a roadmap – but is a result of a roadmap. Hence what we really need is to align EA and SOA, and by doing this we will also align the Maturity Models of EA and SOA.

I have previously made a few posts about the hypes of SOA – e.g. what SOA will magically bring you. Joe McKendrick hits the issue spot on; SOA dos not give you anything for free, but if you know your primary objective of “going SOA”, these goals are obtainable. Joe McKendrick gives in his post ten examples of projects following this trail of thought! This is how to do it…