Gartner EA Summit User
Panel: SOA and EA:
Lessons Learned From the
Trenches - June 2008
In
their opening
statements, the
panelists – Todd Biske
of Monsanto, Marty
Colburn of FINRA, Maja
Tibbling of Con-way and
John Williams of QBE the
Americas – spoke of
the driving forces for
SOA and the role of
Enterprise Architecture
in realizing SOA. The
drivers ranged from IT
economics –
application and
information
rationalization, to
business transformation.
In all cases, current IT
practices and portfolios
were impeding timely
business change.
After
the opening statements,
the moderators grilled
the panelists on a
variety of topics,
including reuse
expectations and
results, quantifying
benefits, implementation
pitfalls, and the
difference between EA
and SOA.
As
the panel closed, each
suggested a best
practice from their
experience. These
practices are: assign an
owner to each service;
establish weekly
architecture and project
group reviews to discuss
service use, development
and issues; develop a
services framework and
taxonomy from your
business architecture;
and measure and manage
service reuse savings in
real dollars.
Panel
Abstract:
In this user panel,
co-moderated by
Gartner and the SOA
Consortium, several
enterprise
architecture (EA)
practitioners will
look at the links,
synergies and
dependencies between
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
and EA. How does SOA
fit into the EA
picture? How can it
help make EA more
valuable? Does SOA
need to be part of a
broader EA? Hear the
first-hand
experience and
lessons learned from
our panelists, and
ask them your own
SOA/EA questions.
Moderators:
Sam
Joseph, Council
Director, Gartner’s
Best Practices Council
Dr. Richard Mark Soley,
Executive Director, SOA
Consortium; Chairman and
CEO, Object Management
group
Panelists:
Todd
Biske, Senior
Enterprise Architect,
Monsanto
Marty Colburn,
Executive Vice President
and Chief Technology
Officer, FINRA
Maja Tibbling,
Lead Enterprise
Architect, Con-way
John Williams,
Enterprise Architect,
QBE the Americas
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