The SOA ecosystem

  • Authors:

  • Zeljko Panian

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia

  • Venue:
  • DNCOCO'07 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Data Networks, Communications, Computers
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services that simplify interoperability, and governance technologies that make SOA scalable and predictable. SOA offers an easy way to speed time-to-market, respond quickly to changing business conditions, reduce duplication of effort and maximize the value of existing assets. When trying to leverage SOA, an understanding of the complexities and interrelationships of the SOA ecosystem is required. SOA ecosystem governance provides a means to ensure the quality, consistency, predictability, change and interdependencies of services. Its overarching goal is to manage the complexity created by SOA by ensuring that organizations are able to capitalize on the powerful promise of SOA without sacrificing control, predictability and efficiency. Managing the complexities of an SOA ecosystem is a major challenge for IT managers and the solution of this problem may be found in a full lifecycle approach SOA ecosystem implementations.