Some new technologies may allow for management to follow deployment, but not service-oriented architecture.
The success of SOA within any organisation depends on the appropriate management, according to industry watchers who say SOA will change the traditional management paradigm and require vendors and IT managers to update their approaches. For instance, the loosely coupled nature of SOA services will demand updated technology — tools that can follow the application components from system to system without being tied to one physical server.
"One of the core challenges . . . is loose coupling, where you want to build services that you can control and manage independently of the consumers of those services," says Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst at ZapThink. "Management then becomes the critical enabler for loose coupling, which is the critical enabler for business agility. That is how it all fits together."
