Best Practices for Selecting and Deploying Initial Projects and Preparing to Migrate to an Enterprise SOA
The ability to embrace SOA leads to the ability to rapidly capitalize on future IT investments and leverage existing technologies both inside and outside your organization. Many enterprises struggle as they seek to identify, implement and build out their first SOA. This is unfortunate because a number of best practices and lessons learned can be applied from the experience of other technology providers and practitioners. As you work to extend IT capabilities utilizing SOA, a key for many of our enterprise customers is a pilot program which enables the greater understanding of methodological Web services deployment and service oriented architectures around a structured initiative.
The SOA white paper, Implementing a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Pilot Program, will guide you towards proven best practices that will increase the likelihood of garnering the benefits of an SOA—including application agility and reuse. The white paper will then present Actional's best practices for selecting and implementing a successful SOA pilot and then how to utilize the experience and lessons learned to migrate to an enterprise-class SOA.
Topics covered in this white paper include:
- Defining overall goals of you SOA initiative;
- How to start with a pilot;
- Migrating to an enterprise SOA;
- How to leveraging existing experience.
SPECIAL OFFER! Register and you will also get the white paper Operational Excellence for Distributed, Interconnected Applications. This paper examines the challenges of, and solutions for, effectively managing the operations of service-based, interconnected applications.
