Gartner EA Summit User
Panel: SOA and EA:
Lessons Learned From the
Trenches - December 2008
In
the opening statements,
the panelists –Todd
Biske of Monsanto, Aleks
Buterman of Lincoln
Financial Group and
Kanai Pathak of
Schlumberger – spoke
of the relationship
between their EA and SOA
practices, including how
perceptions of “EA as
an ivory tower practice”
can impede SOA startup
and acceptance. Value
delivery is the best way
to overcome this
cultural obstacle; “success
is contagious”.
After
the opening remarks, the
audience tapped into the
knowledge and experience
of the panelists on a
variety of topics,
including applying
service-orientation to
business process,
information and
integration issues;
marketing a SOA program,
measuring SOA value,
governance, and
achieving SOA maturity.
As
the session closed, each
panelist shared a lesson
learned the hard way:
-
Don’t
“deploy and forget”
your services,
assign an owner for
long term care and
feeding, and
consumer
relationship
management.
-
Don’t
mire the business in
complex business
analysis artifacts.
Elicit information
from the business,
without bogging them
down in unfamiliar,
unwelcome,
techniques and
artifacts.
-
Don’t
underestimate the
impact of expedited
software development
on downstream
testing and
deployment
activities. Perform
business process
analysis on your
SDLC and apply
automation wherever
possible.
Session
Abstract:
In this user panel,
co-moderated by
Gartner and the SOA
Consortium, several
EA practitioners
will look at the
links, synergies and
dependencies between
SOA and enterprise
architecture. 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 from our
panelists about
their first-hand
experience and
lessons learned, and
ask them your own
SOA/EA questions.
Moderators:
Nicholas
Gall, Gartner
Dr. Richard Mark
Soley, Executive
Director, SOA
Consortium; Chairman and
CEO, Object Management
Group
Panelists:
Aleks
Buterman, Lincoln
Financial Group
Todd
Biske, Senior
Enterprise Architect,
Monsanto
Kanai Pathak,
Schlumberger
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