Insight and Outlook, Part 10: Cutting Through the Hype About SOA

Overview

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may be a bit of an exception; most people will not try to convince the user that it is really easy to design or build an SOA. However, the author imagines one has heard more than once that SOA is the solution to all the IT problems. (OK - maybe all the IT problems except the one where the management keeps buying into "Easy-to-use" solutions from major platform vendors.) Still, it can sound like all one has to do is adopt SOA and suddenly the IT systems will not only work really well, but they will be easy to maintain and upgrade. And they will completely align with business needs and save or make the company lots of money.