On March 19, 2009, Jon Reed moderated a webcast roundtable on the state of SOA and where SOA is in the hype cycle. This webcast, hosted by ASUG, Americas’ SAP Users’ Group, was coordinated by Kent Sanders of CSC, who is the volunteer chair of the ASUG SOA SIG.
Click here to download the WebEx version of the Webcast (.wrf file, 11.3 mb, right click to download)
The goal of the webcast was to directly address the fallout from the January 5, 2009 blog from Anne Thomas Manes, Senior Analyst at the Burton Group, who wrote that SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. Anne’s blog provoked widespread conversation on the value of SOA, and what SOA can actually deliver to customers at a time when innovation is a matter of survival and there is no budget for “hot air” technologies.
In addition to tackling questions from the live chat, the panel also addressed the following questions:
- Where do you see SOA in its current state and where along in the hype cycle is SOA now?
- IS BPM (BPMS) the holy grail of SOA?
- What are the synergies between enterprise architecture and SOA?
- How has the positioning of SOA evolved from provider-based technology to consumer-based use cases?
- What are your experiences in driving SOA adoption within your organizations?
- What does the future hold for SOA and service-based technologies?
- If ‘SOA is dead,’ what becomes the architectural underpinning of services-based computing, such as mash-ups, SaaS, cloud computing, BPM, etc?
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