How can SOA eliminate the current “siloed” IT and business functions within enterprises?
Stan Alexander: As discussed earlier, SOA does not do this by itself. What SOA gives you is a powerful approach for improving the agility of your enterprise. But to truly reap the rewards, you must couple it with a culture of reuse, change the organisation to allow cross-silo collaboration, install a meaningful governance process and couple SOA technology with BPM to really drive the business value. Maria Pardee: By the adoption of standard service orientated business processes and the development of a set of services from the IT applications that can be integrated to deliver the standard business processes means, organisations have the chance of doing things once and in a consistent manner independent of specific products or services which will help to eliminate silos. Malhar Kamdar: The gap between business need and IT execution often has less to do with the technology leveraged than the way in which IT as a whole is delivered to the business. Often companies develop a business strat
