Most enterprise IT operations rely heavily on batch processing operations. The reliance doesn't go away when you move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), yet SOA just means online transaction processing to many people. Sridhar Sudarsan IT architect with IBM's Software Lab Services, he has led enterprise architecture solutions for several customers worldwide, including major enterprises in the finance, public sector and automobile industries. For Sudarsan's clients, batch processing remains a big question mark as clients migrate toward SOAs.
"Almost every legacy modernization scenario that I work with asks, 'When I transform to SOA, what about the batch applications and system?'," Sudarsan said.
