TAKE STEADY, BALANCED APPROACH TO SOA, EXECS SAY /

By China Martens, published on April 13, 2006 at InfoWorld.

[...] He cautioned against rushing headlong into an SOA deployment. Instead, he suggests a company spend time at the start of the project to come up with a vision followed by a road map with milestones for what it hopes to achieve both technically and in a business sense with the deployment. It's vital to ensure a balance between business and technology needs from the get-go, Beck added. [...]

Goals for eBusiness Center included speeding up application development and promoting reuse of common components. Helvetia Patria also wanted to be able to develop applications that could then be used by a variety of distribution channels such as the Web and intranets instead of having to write applications separately for every channel. [...]

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