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2. SOA maturity of your organization

The Business Domain

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:

  1. Stakeholder commitment. There are many stakeholders across the business community who must commit to and participate in the move to SOA--from executive management and the managers of business units to partners, suppliers, and, in some
    cases, even customers.
  2. Synchronization of business and IT. Better alignment of business and IT strategy and operations is a key benefit of the adoption of SOA. To make this happen, changes to operating processes and structures will be required, decisions will have to be linked and measurements and goals will need to be aligned.
The People Domain

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.

The Program Management Domain

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.

3. Are industry (vertical) standards being used either directly or, to provide guidance.

PESC

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:

  1. The admission application
  2. The high School transcript
  3. The college transcript

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 IMS Global Learning Consortium

  1. LII Learning Tools Interoperability
  2. LIS Learning Infrastructure Services
  3. e-Portfolio
HR
  1. HR XML
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