Big Consulting Missing the Cloud Computing and SOA Links - Where SOA Meets Cloud. Consulting is a funny business.
You have to remain relevant, so you have a tendency to follow the hype and follow the crowd. Cloud computing is the next instance of that, and many of the larger consulting organizations is chasing cloud computing as fast as they can. However, many are not chasing cloud computing the right way, missing many of the architectural advantages. Instead they are just tossing things out of the enterprise onto private and public clouds and hoping for the best. Enterprise Inventory. Rationale[edit] An SOA adoption usually results in multiple set of services built by various teams as part of automating different business processes spread across diverse departmental boundaries.
Each project team might be following different set of standards and implementation architectures[3] (for developing services) that are more relevant to the team's short-term goals and requirements. Although the built services might provide enough opportunities for reuse and recomposition within the same business domain, however, when it comes to composing services from different business domains, there tends to be an impedance mismatch requiring some sort of bridging or transformation logic in between these services. SOA_Beyond_The_Hype.pdf (application/pdf Object) SOA Patterns.