Mark Herring, Vice President, Software Infrastructure Marketing, Sun Microsystems spoke of SOA’s purported death, real-world customer implementations and trends, at the March 2009 meeting of the SOA Consortium in Washington DC.
In dispelling the notion that SOA is dead, Herring shared customer success stories from telecommunications, automotive manufacturing, government and healthcare. Common to each example, was the need to solve a specific business problem in a tight time constraint, rather than taking on a grand SOA challenge.
This mindset shift, from “SOA as world hunger solver” to SOA principles being applied to specific business challenges, is critical in the evolution of SOA, which Herring describes as Simple SOA. Organizations need to simplify at the technology layer, in the form of simple APIs and lightweight infrastructure, and in project delivery techniques, from perfection to good enough.
In respect to technology layer simplification, Herring advised attendees to adopt open source, investigate WOA and cloud services for service definition and implementation practices, consider cloud computing and find a trusted partner.
To hear about the customer case studies Herring presented and learn more about Simple SOA and view the slides go here.
This is the last of eight podcasts recorded at our March 2009 meeting. Previously, we released Sandy Carter’s Smart SOA in Tough Economic Climate, Dave Linthicum on Intersections of SOA and Cloud Computing, How SOA participates in a Green World Roundtable, Cory Casanave on Enterprise SOA modeling with SoaML, JP Morgenthal on Disassembling the SOA & BPM relationship, Todd Landry on Service Oriented Communications and Ronald Schmelzer of ZapThink on Growing your EA Skills and the Long Tail.
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