Channel Strategies for the CIOBeing knowledgeable about service-oriented architecture (SOA) will help you provide a higher quality of systems development and integration services to your customers. This SOA governance and implementation guide provides tips, chapter excerpts, a study guide and tutorials that describe the key areas of SOA that solutions providers should know about. Learn about the challenges facing value-added resellers (VARs) and their customers, and discover how SOA can resolve those issues. Find out about SOA best practices and the top ways to maximize revenue. You'll also get a better understanding of how SOA fits into the IT infrastructure.
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What are the basics of SOA?• SOA governance
• The importance of SOA to solutions providers
• SOA implementation and data standardization
• More resources on SOA governance and implementation
What are the basics of SOA?
Knowing what service-oriented architecture is and the benefits it can provide for your
customers is the first step toward winning SOA implementation projects. Once you fully understand
the fundamental principles and concepts, persuading customers to go the SOA route becomes much
easier. These learning materials, including a study guide, chapter excerpts and a tutorial, explain
how SOA is valuable to solutions providers, their customers and even small software
developers.
Service-oriented architecture study guide
Use this service-oriented
architecture study guide to test your knowledge of basic SOA terminology, best practices,
standards, advantages and disadvantages. Take the quiz that covers the key areas in which SOA
should be practiced -- SOA governance and management. Also featured in this study guide are a
number of SOA tutorials, chapter excerpts and articles that will be valuable during
implementation.
Service-oriented analysis and service modeling
The collaborative relationship between business analysts and architects is unclear at times, but
this chapter excerpt shows how the relationship works and how it changes with each different SOA
project. Learn why service-oriented
analysis and service modeling is important, how the service-oriented platform works, why
service models are used and how Web services fit into SOA.
SOA governance
These questions and answers about SOA governance delve into the definition and other
aspects of governance. There are challenges involved in SOA governance, such as ensuring that
industry standards are met and dealing with heterogeneous environments, and the experts in these
resources give the best practices for dealing with these concerns. Find out why focusing on
end-to-end processes, interoperability and SOA adoption is crucial to governance in your customers'
organizations.
SOA governance tutorial
SOA governance is a broad concept that's divided into two main segments -- design governance and
runtime governance. To make design and runtime governance more effective, solutions providers need
to know about policy management. This SOA governance
tutorial features a detailed description of SOA governance, gives tips on implementing it and
offers examples of SOA governance implementation strategies.
SOA development governance simplified by centralized policy management
The use of the SOA lifecycle
governance tool is simplified by new features, such as auto-correct policy compliance and
centralized policy management. These additions make the governing process easier for solutions
providers and VARs. See how centralized policy management is a boon to your customers' systems.
How governance and quality define SOA maturity
This interview explains how governance
and quality define a mature SOA environment. You'll also learn about the role governance plays
in advanced SOA practices and how to deal with the challenge of heterogeneous environments. There
are several different services within SOA that can be confusing, but this expert helps you gain a
greater understanding by looking at emerging areas in SOA.
The importance of SOA to solutions providers
Solutions providers have become very important players in the service-oriented
architecture market. These articles explain how applications have shaped SOA and the ways that SOA
saves your customers' money. Although it can be a difficult concept to explain to customers, the
resources in this section outline the points that you should present to demonstrate the value that
SOA brings to your customer's business.
Why should solutions providers pay attention to SOA?
Why is SOA so appealing?? Solutions
providers should pay attention to SOA because, with the availability of internal applications,
customizing applications for each customer is no longer necessary. SOA also creates efficiencies in
writing software -- it's only written once instead of numerous times for clients, which helps in
spreading the cost among those users.
The benefits of SOA for solutions providers
The expert in this interview describes SOA as a collection of open standards that are proven to
be beneficial to solutions providers as the bridge between IT and business continues to bring them
closer together. Solutions
providers need to pay attention to SOA because its evolution has helped to fuse organizational
gaps, and its role in the channel is geared toward VARs that are creating and delivering their own
new services to the market.
SOA implementation and data
standardization
SOA implementation and data standardization are two processes that solutions providers
don't always take advantage of. Implementation requires basic SOA skills, familiarity with the
infrastructure and enterprise applications. Take a look at why Service Data Objects (SDO) are your
best option when trying to ensure data standardization for your customers.
Three steps to SOA implementation revenue
You know that SOA is vital to solutions providers, but how exactly can they take advantage of
it, and what do they need to focus on? A solutions provider needs to develop fundamental SOA skills
that are crucial to implementation. They also must become familiar with SOA infrastructure and
tools, as well as enterprise applications. Solutions providers should follow these three steps
to SOA implementation revenue to ensure they provide their customers with the best possible
return on investment.
SOA Source Book delivers step-by-step implementation guidelines
The Open Group, a vendor-and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global
interoperability, has released the first edition of The SOA Source Book. It lists best
practices for implementing SOA based on The Open Group Architecture Framework. The book also
gives advice for overcoming common challenges, such as choosing the right way to implement SOA
based on the enterprise culture; demonstrating return on investment; winning SOA funding; and
putting together costing models.
More resources on SOA governance and implementation
An implementer's guide to service-oriented
architecture
Understanding service-oriented
architecture
What is service-oriented
architecture?
SOA Center
This was first published in October 2009