Integrate SOA into Your Enterprise Architecture Program

The challenge for Enterprise Architecture is to make IT cheaper, more strategic and more responsive, but quick and effective changes are not possible without changes to IT systems and infrastructures.

EA's approach is essentially city planning for IT: an overarching plan of the total data, business processes and IT assets inside a company, how they're used, and how they should be built and shared. –The problem, however, is that standardising, mapping and controlling IT assets does not necessarily make the business more flexible, capable or profitable. As a result, many past EA architecture efforts have stalled, failed or become purely IT-centric and lacking a business focus.

This is all changing with the emergence of SOA, which provides new ways for designing more agile, more responsive enterprise architectures that provide the kind of value the business has been seeking. With these new architectures, IT can build new business capabilities faster, cheaper and in a vocabulary the business understands.

SOA does not define Enterprise Architecture, but it can form its new core – SOA could inspire new Enterprise Architecture efforts, revive failing ones and increase the business value of existing programs.

Use our one-to-four day SOA & EA Workshop to provide the guidance and roadmap for integrating your SOA plans into your Enterprise Architecture program.

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