What SOA means for management
A management strategy has to come hand in hand with an SOA deployment, industry analysts say
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Denise Dubie
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Network World
, 10/22/2007
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Some new technologies may allow for management to follow deployment, but not service-oriented architecture.
The success of SOA within any organization depends on the appropriate management, according to industry watchers who say SOA will change the
traditional management paradigm and require vendors and IT managers to update their approaches. For instance, the loosely
coupled nature of SOA services will demand updated technology -- tools that can follow the application components from system to system without being tied to one physical server.
"One of the core challenges . . . is loose coupling, where you want to build services that you can control and manage independently
of the consumers of those services," said Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst at ZapThink during a live discussion
sponsored by Tidal Software. "Management then becomes the critical enabler for loose coupling, which is the critical enabler
for business agility. That is how it all fits together." (For a Webcast of the discussion, click here.)

Yet it's not that simple. IT managers need to have begun breaking down the walls, or silos, between IT domains to enable management
of loosely coupled application services across a business environment, said Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst
at Interarbor Solutions.
"SOA management needs to go a step further and take into consideration many systems and interdependencies -- perhaps involving
services coming from outside the organizational boundaries, be they from partners across the supply chain, and even hosting
and commercial service providers," Gardner said. "Management is going to be, as a topic, very important to SOA in a traditional
sense, but also management in a new sense."
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