SOA Transformation: Ready or Not

David Butler, Worldwide SOA Director and Chief Evangelist, HP, kicked off the SOA Consortium's June meeting in Ottawa with an information-packed presentation on service-oriented architecture (SOA) transformation. He shared his thoughts on the state of the SOA market - that SOA isn't about providing a new technology set, but about providing a transformation focused on a design point called a business service. Butler then shared examples of business outcomes from a semiconductor company, a financial services firm and an insurance provider.

Butler pointed out that successful SOA transformation is more than merely implementing software. Transformation spans people, organization, process and technology. Touching on the organizational aspect, he called out the criticality of business-IT alignment for proper business service identification and implementation. Butler shared a 10-point roadmap for SOA transformation, based on customer experience, that covered business service definition, center of excellence, SOA governance, execution architecture and platform, quality and provisioning, service lifecycle, data center operations, IT management processes, and line of business engagement. In closing, he stated, "SOA is a business-oriented architecture."

About the Speaker:

David Butler is the Chief SOA Evangelist for HP Software, where he leads thought leadership activities with SOA customers, analysts, sales and services organizations. David is also leading contributor to development and execution of HP’s SOA strategy, and is Chair of HP’s SOA Customer Advisory Board. He comes to HP from Mercury Interactive and Systinet.

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