Opengroup @ Virtual EA conference

This is the key pts from the presentation made by OpenGroup during the Virtual EA conference on Sept 30, 2008.


Benefits of SOA:
Improved information flow
Agility
Ability to expose internal functions
Lower devlopment & maintainence costs
Ability to optimize performance, functionality, cost


Using TOGAF ADM for SOA:
ADM is similar to that followed for other architectures except for the following phases:
Business architecture-Define business vocabulary & service context
Information system architecture-Identify functions to be performed by services
Technical architecture-Define service stds & infrstructure


SOA provides many features but architect needs to select the ones needed for the enterprise.