SOA adoption has an impact upon and provides benefits for both business and IT. In order to successfully adopt SOA across the enterprise, it’s imperative that both business and IT commit to the program. Both sides must recognize that there will be different ways of working, and both should recognize that there will be benefits realized for each.
As the adoption of SOA proceeds across the enterprise, the Business Domain must consider:
At the heart of the People Domain is simple communication. Looking at the other domains, it is clear that all our discoveries and decisions need to be communicated across the organization.
While program management is certainly not unique to the adoption of SOA, it is a key ingredient of any SOA program. In the Program Management Domain an important element is the organizational span of the SOA rollout across teams, departments, business units, and the entire enterprise, as well as managing the depth of the service portfolio. SOA adoption requires an iterative approach, with SOA rolled out as a series of steps. Each step provides a complete business solution, and each step delivers measurable business value.
PESC is the Post Secondary Education Standards Council (http://www.pesc.org). Once the keepers of key EDI standards (like the T130), PESC now publishes a number of standards as XML schemas:
PESC also acts as a standards broker and is facilitating the convergence of Kuali Student service contracts with existing PESC standards. See Letter of Intent.
IMS IMS Global Learning Consortium