SOA needs a funding model

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Any architecture initiative needs a funding model

Doesn't this funding issue apply to any enterprise wide architecture initiative? And even where there is buy-in at the highest levels e.g. MD, CEO etc. the budgets are still typically owned and allocated by individual business units. Even where there is central funding for SOA there can still be funding issues. For example, an organisation I worked for provided central funding for a SOA initiative that delivered a service oriented customer database to replace the multiple pre-existing customer databases, with a raft of services exposed on a service bus, fully tested and available to everyone. However, what wasn't funded was the integration and testing the service requesters needed to do to use these services so when it was mandated that all access to customer data using the old databases should be replaced with the shiny new customer database there was a huge funding issue, because business units had, possibly naively, assumed this would also be centrally funded.

Posted by: maesbrae   Posted on: 06/13/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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