SOA Consortium Insights

SOA Adoption and Value Survey -- MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research

The SOA Consortium continues to build strategic relationships with leading organizations.   Today, we are pleased to extend an invitation from Jeanne W. Ross, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, to participate in a survey investigating SOA adoption and value.  The survey is open through the end of May and all participants will receive a copy of the results. 

Jeanne’s invitation follows.

“The survey asks architecture leaders to share their views in 4 key areas: SOA adoption, current practices, value and results, and barriers to SOA success. We also intend to understand linkages, if any, between SOA initiatives and company financial performance. Our objective is to help those responsible for architecture better understand how their organizations stack up on a variety of key SOA metrics: investment, progress, reuse, and others.

The survey – which will take 10-15 minutes to complete – is available here.   The survey will be available on line through the end of May.

This survey is a joint effort of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants.  All responses will be kept completely confidential. Only research team members will know the responses from any organization, and findings will be reported only in aggregate. Of course, you will receive a complimentary copy of the full report."

Please consider participating in this survey.  I'm looking forward to the results, especially on the linkage of SOA initiatives and company financial performance.

Enterprise Architecture 2010 Talk-- Where EA Means Business -- at SAP ASUG on May 5, 2008

On Monday, I'll be representing the SOA Consortium's EA2010 working group at SAP's ASUG conference in, you guessed it, sunny Orlando.  I'll be giving a talk on our EA2010 work.  Areas of discussion include 21st century business, service-orientation, business architecture, enterprise architecture and enterprise architects.  If you are attending the show, please come by, Monday at 9:30-10:30, in 308C. 

If you'd like to connect at the show, I'll be at the Sunday evening ESOA Community Networking Session and taking in sessions and wandering around the expo floor on Monday.  Drop me an email at bmichelson at gmail dot com.