SOA promises to unlock the power of legacy systems and lessen the dependency on high-end enterprise applications. This is achieved by encapsulating business functionality in services. These services will be constructed independently of the Enterprise & Legacy applications and will string together in loosely coupled late-binding business processes.
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One of the key promises of SOA is re-use, and over time organisations are increasingly becoming successful in achieving that goal. However, there are external factors that also have an equal bearing on the success of an SOA implementation.
Main topics:
- The service Lifecycle – what does it look like?
- Methods and processes for service evolution
- Supporting tools & techniques
- Governing the service-cycle
- Best practices & take-aways
Introduction:
- The process and system complexity within defence
- A model for support chain integration
- A view of the Support Network