SOA Maturity Model - Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just another product or technology to be added to the IT environment. Rather, SOA requires significant and often fairly far-reaching changes to truly reap all the benefits of adopting SOA. To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five years Oracle has been working with a wide variety of companies that are in various stages of SOA adoption. This experience has been captured in the Oracle SOA Maturity Model such that this collective experience can be used to measure the progress of an SOA initiative and, more importantly, can identify specific capabilities that are lacking or lagging and are therefore inhibiting the SOA initiative. A remediation approach for each of the identified inhibitors can be determined from industry best practices and prior experiences. These remedies can then be prioritized and used to create a plan, called the SOA Roadmap, to put the SOA initiative back on track. Having an SOA Roadmap based on a comprehensive SOA Maturity Model that is constructed using a proven approach and is based on years of collected experience and best practices accelerates the SOA adoption and dramatically reduces the risks associated with the transformation that SOA requires.