Service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects are often abandoned because they are incorrectly assessed and implemented, explains Joe Ruthven, business development manager for open computing and SOA at IBM.
“A company has to understand its own business drivers if they want to succeed with SOA,” he says. “They have to identify existing initiatives that, if applied to SOA, will benefit the bottom line.”
According to Ruthven, SOA should never be viewed as a technology, but rather as a style that is intrinsically linked to a company's core business drivers.
