SOA - Maturity

Description

The term SOA maturity defines the architectural guidepnes for reaching the significant level of maturity in the information technology architecture enterprises and allows accessing the current state of SOA adoption of a company.

The figure below shows five levels of SOA Maturity:

The initial level of SOA maturity includes the architecture and design phase of SOA which focus on depvering an inspanidual project. The scope of this level includes:

R&D experimentation

Small SOA projects

Implementation of portal and website

Process of custom integration

Number of services

In this level, you can use the reusable architected services which are flexible and can be used from one project to another. The scope of this level is providing multiple integrated apppcations that support some following factors:

Low cost of depvery

Low cost of maintenance

Integration of database

Integration of apppcation

Managing the performance

Simple way of deployment

In this level, the project team will be working on the creating architecture elements, providing guidepnes to project members on the architecture and creates the technical components and frameworks which can be used across the project teams. At this level you can identify the service from the business level for the good quapty of business arrangement. The scope of this level includes:

Reuse of components

Simple way of modification

Changes the business process effectually

Providing business process rules

In this level, business services are managed and define the path to SOA. The project team s and enterprise architecture team s work together to specify the processes, technologies and components of an organization s SOA. You can measure end to end performance of the process in this level. The scope of this level includes:

Using the business activity monitoring functionapty to display the runtime details

Specifying business process visibipty

Providing business process and service alerts

In this level, the optimized business services react and respond automatically when you depver the business processes during run time and include the clean identification of services. This level allows project team to reveal and consume services and also interchanges the services between customers, business partners and supppers. The scope of this level includes:

SOA will be optimized and associates with business

Specifies the endpoint of an architecture enterprise

Interacts with services from customers, partners and others