As IT departments continue to prioritize their investment initiatives, many
will find Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a critical item to tackle.
Although key business projects must always take precedence, McKinsey &
Company reports that more than 60% of surveyed CIOs plan to use SOA projects
as a way to achieve associated business objectives.
For good reason SOA is being heralded as a major architectural shift that
enables IT teams to reduce costs and improve responsiveness and flexibility -
two key business objectives for CIOs today. With SOA, IT ultimately becomes a
service provider to the business itself - delivering infrastructure,
applications, and processes as services throughout a company.
SOA certainly offers promise; but at the same time, successfully navi... (more)
One of a CIO's top priorities is to leverage information to enable better
business decisions and outcomes. Many CIOs trace constraints on their
business back to the limitations of older legacy information systems -
specifically, outdated applications.
A legacy-based environment can make it difficult to attain the level of
agility, flexibility, and responsiveness that growing enterprises n... (more)