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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:59:15 +0000

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By: Hauke Kröger

Hauke Kröger — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:39:36 +0000

Excellent post indeed! I am exactly experiencing your points trying to tie up a serviceoriented organization – both the business part AND the it. And what this should mean to them in terms of a change process… We found out, the business potential is much higher, then the it optimization would be… so I also strongly believe SOA is far more than only structuring things, but also ways of working…

By: Marc Rix

Marc Rix — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:32:17 +0000

True dat. SOA = Systems Oriented Approach to business transformation. Technology architecture is incidental.

By: Puleen Patel

Puleen Patel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:44:19 +0000

This is an excellent post. Thank you!

By: Jason Bloomberg

Jason Bloomberg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:39:57 +0000

The answer to your final question is “yes”! There is nothing about the definition of architecture that precludes SOA from being about business transformation. Furthermore, the fact that no two organizations implement SOA the same way is also part of what it means to do architecture. As we like to say, the architect’s answer is usually “it depends”!

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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:17:18 +0000

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By: John

John — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:35:31 +0000

Excellent post – I’ve been saying similar things about SOA for years.