The panel is reitteratng that you cannot buy SOA in a box. It is an architecture, a long term process and transformation of the enterprise. It is beyond the scope and capability of the I.T. folks but really has to come from business leaders – the C-Level executives.

What impact with the economic downturn have on these SOA projects? Those companies that are thinking tactically and quarter-to-quarter will be at greatest risk of failure. Those that are more strategic thinking will see the value and move through the downturn.

Standards – missing standards. The vendors need to fix it. The standards actually come out of the marketing arm not the R&D of the vendor’s shop. There are 156 standards that I’m tracking.

REST: Tom on RESTful services. Chose the RESTful services because the WS standards weren’t really ready.

Enterprise Mash-Ups: Doing real applications of value in rapid iterations is a way to demonstrate the value of SOA. Mash-ups as an orchestration and integration layer. Google maps as a service provider for mapping and real-time traffic information. Mash that with delivery systems inside the enterprise and delivered to a web browser inside the truck. Can save a company $15-20K a month by missing traffic issues.

Business Process Modeling:

“There is a marriage that everyone keeps talking about but they have yet to go on their first date.” The business process people think that they should own the BPM/BPEL layer. The I.T. folks think that they know what it takes to actually implement the process so they are uncomfortable with giving complete control to the business people. There are the BMP Tribe, The SOA Tribe and the EA Tribe and they aren’t talking even though they are completely intertwined.

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