The success of SOA depends on how it is adopted by an organization. There are 3 basic SOA adoption models today: ad-hoc, organic, and strategic. Organizations that use the ad-hoc approach focus only on their current needs and miss out on the reuse benefits of SOA, resulting in increased complexity and further non-standardization. The organic approach requires a small initial investment and builds a foundation for other projects to follow. The focus is on developing standards, best practices, processes, and structure that can further evolve. The strategic aproach to SOA builds a roadmap for implementation for the entire organization. This approach demonstrates the recommended use of standards and best practices for the enterprise.
In order to be successful, organizations must implement either an organic or strategic strategy and focus on the following:
• Align SOA objectives with business drivers
• Identify SOA adopters
• Address organizational barriers to adoption
• Define and measure success
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Good strategy = good results, most of the time.
Good deliniation between approaches. Really there are only two approaches, the first isnt an approach; just more integration spagehtti. I explore the organic approach a bit more on my blog The Road to SOA
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