That is undoubtedly true, as plenty of companies have learned. Attempting to implement a ‘grand vision’ for SOA can be unwieldy enough to swamp the enterprise in myriad complexities.
For many companies, the question becomes: how can we realize the promise of SOA without developing and following an exhaustive 400-page platform plan?
In the word, Heffner says, the concept to keep in the forefront is “evolutionary.”
The entire infrastructure doesn’t need to be ripped out and rebuilt. Instead, it’s helpful to focus on a specific problem, then find a specific SOA implementation that fixes that problem.
