SOEA - Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Just a little update on low level of activity on my blog.

I have been working on writing definitions on the concepts that are used in relation to EA and SOA. This, quite boring, but necessary exercise is fortunately moving towards the end, and I will be publishing my definitions shortly.

One of the reasons that the “definition work” is going a bit slow is because I am also working on a much more interesting project. I have commenced the ambitious task of trying to map SOA into the Zachman Framework! And I must say; I think it looks very promising!

Some of the preliminary results is:
In my view SOA has a great effect on EA. Often I see that the arguments of the A in SOA should be removed, and I am beginning to work with the concept SOEA (SOA - A + EA = SOEA). (and I can see that my thesis instructor might be a little inspired from our last meeting http://gotzespace.dk ).
The reason I remove the A from SOA is because I don’t see it as the same A that is in EA…

And another exiting thing is that the mapping of SOA into the Zachman Framwork may make it possible to omit the “Technology model” and “Detailed Representation”.

I will surely return with more on this later!!