Key practices for SOA adoption
Duško Vukmanović, Damir Kalpić · 2012
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become a widespread architecture and integration means in companies, due to increased use and maturing of standards, technologies, tools and platforms. Platforms are certainly more mature than some other non-technical aspects of SOA. Adoption of SOA principles in system design results in certain benefits. In order to achieve balance between long-term goals and short-term business needs, companies have to establish a proper organizational and operational mode from the beginning of SOA initiatives. In general, roadmap is an accepted means of providing the plan to reach certain objectives. It links together the application, technical and organizational challenges, technology solutions, and it helps in setting priorities to achieve the goals. The aim of this paper is to identify key practices for a successful start of the transformation to service-oriented architecture.