Simon Says SOA

Does your integration solution provide value or cause problems?  This question obviously presumes your business has some type of “solution” to integration, and it does.  Every system of information technologies from stand-alone applications to document management to enterprise provisioning must solve the “connectivity” problem.  This may be simple emails, multiple database interfaces, full blown EAI or just person-to-person interaction – the concept is the same: you must be able to communicate data.  So does your implementation of integration solve the problems facing your business?  How about problems other than purely connectivity?  Or is integration another hurdle stopping you from the next enhancement or even worse, costing your business dollars due to poorly designed interactions?

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Typically we envision software, and the solutions they flaunt, to satisfy a specific need in a niche within the enterprise.   From marketing and sales to IT, from operations to quality assurance, each has its own problems. Therefore its own unique solution and technology is quick to run with open arms offering promises to all.  SOA is not a traditional IT application with a singular focused value proposition nor is it this ever-transforming magical black box that is always the solution to any business problem.

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