As SOA goes mainstream in the enterprise, its success may hinge on a crucial meeting of the minds -- a mash-up of talent that can uncap a font of creative potential. On one side of the mashup are architects and developers, who up to now have perhaps been designing point Web-services deployments or legacy systems wrappers. On the other side are business process modelers, who've been mapping out how your business really works and what it needs, often in isolation and with limited ability to act on their process insights.
Before enterprises deploy SOA on a large scale, experts say, getting these teams together in a disciplined planning exercise can unlock the business value that process modelers knew was there all along.
