SOA Success? Focus on Process and Architecture (4)
Posted by hung5s on December 22, 2007
The Payoff: Real Business-IT Alignment
All of these challenges underscore how different SOA is from traditional enterprise technology efforts. The CIO must put the technologist hat to the side and become an advocate for business processes. Better knowledge of those processes leads to better technology design, which reduces the cost of maintaining existing systems—something that now accounts for 70 percent to
80 percent of IT budgets, says Schmelzer.
“We’ve been talking for years about IT-business alignment,” says IDC’s Rogers. An SOA lets you actually achieve that goal—if you can develop the architectural vision and execute on it over the long term. The process is not easy, but early adopters like Peck, Metzger and Stubbs would never go back to the traditional IT approach. “A lot of [D.C.] government would not work without SOA,” says Peck.
