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Toolkit Presentation: Justifying Service-Oriented Architecture Initiatives
13 April 2007
 
Michael Barnes  

SOA initiatives are typically driven by a need to enable, support and manage more-frequent changes, often unplanned. Measuring SOA benefits using traditional return on investment approaches is, therefore, insufficient (and impossible, in some cases) because the project remains a moving target.





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The downloadable presentation addresses the following topics:

  • Reality Check: SOA in 2007
  • Preparing IT for the Conversation
  • Structuring the Business Conversation
  • Finding the Common Ground
  • Identifying Appropriate Metrics: Application Development
  • Identifying Appropriate Metrics: Application and Data Integration
  • Identifying Appropriate Metrics: Application and System Maintenance
  • Recommendations: Use a Multistage Process to Justify SOA




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