SINGAPORE--If you are hitting a roadblock trying to obtain funding for a project, try a test implementation on a small part of the business to prove your project's worth to management.
That was the advice from Kevin Ong, senior manager of application technology, information systems, Sony Asia-Pacific, who was sharing his company's experience in implementing SOA (service oriented architecture) at an IBM conference held here Wednesday.
Noting the uphill struggle his team faced in justifying the SOA project's ROI (return on investment), Ong said they decided to start small, overhauling one of Sony's small repair hubs for the project. SOA makes it easy for unconnected islands of IT services to be integrated.
Thanks to the success of this initial project, Sony's Asia-Pacific IT department plans to implement SOA in its upcoming projects.
Ong said that the company might look to extend its SOA efforts beyond the Asia-Pacific region, to Sony's global management in Japan.
According to a study conducted by IDC Asia-Pacific early this year, almost half of businesses surveyed had no plans to initiate SOA projects.
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