The promise of SOA is clear — Increased agility, reduced costs, tighter
alignment between the business and the application logic that runs the
business. What’s missing however is the process to get from your
existing enterprise application architecture to the promise of SOA, and the
ability to ensure that once you get there, you stay there. Mapping existing
business services to the logic that actually executes these services within
existing applications provides organizations with the ability to promote
service candidates from within existing applications and databases, while
deprecating duplicative or redundant logic. Additionally once a stable of
services exists, active governance alerts organizations to the creation of
newly developed duplicative logic or... (more)