SOA Value Story
Ronald Schmelzer, of industry think tank ZapThink, describes four key benefits to SOA.[1]
- Reducing integration expenses (both development costs and maintenance costs)
- Increasing asset reuse (no need to re-invent the wheel each time)
- Increasing business agility (the pace of business has changed, but few enterprises have)
- Reducing business risk (both operational and compliance risk).
In the following sections, we will explore and illustrate each of these value propositions.
Reducing Integration Expenses
“If I had a dollar for every time that upper management asked me to cut costs…” — A CTO who is fond of irony
