 SOA Infrastructure Self-AssessmentIf you are involved in planning or implementing an enterprise class Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you may be hearing many different messages about what’s important, what’s not, and where you should invest your time and resources for the optimal result. In some cases, the information you receive may be confusing and contradictory to what you know about SOA, or even your common sense.In experience gained by planning and implementing SOA Infrastructure solutions at some of the world’s largest companies, we have found that there is often misunderstanding surrounding the meaning and requirements for sound SOA Infrastructure. SOA Infrastructure is the collection of architectural, policy, and security related practices and products required to deploy and govern an SOA. Where a lot of smart people get mixed up, though, is when it comes to assessing an organization’s true level of need for a sophisticated SOA Infrastructure solution. The importance of investing in a robust SOA Infrastructure solution will depend on many different factors, related mostly to the size and complexity of your organization, the number of Web services you are running or planning to deploy, and so on. The following SOA Infrastructure Self-Assessment is a quantitative, objective diagnostic tool that will help you evaluate your organization’s level of need for a robust SOA Infrastructure. 
You will receive two scores: 1) Your Organizational Size and Complexity Score 2) Your SOA Scope and Complexity Score Using your scores, you can place your organization one of four quadrants in the chart shown above. Depending on the outcome of your self-assessment, your organization may or may not have a strong incentive to justify the investment in a robust SOA Infrastructure solution. While it might seem unusual for a software company to suggest that you don't need a robust solution, we believe that we can add value to your SOA planning efforts by providing you with an objective self-assessment. Please fill out the questions and contact form below. Upon submission, you will receive an email containing your SOA Infrastructure Self-Assessment scores as well as instructions for downloading our white papers, data sheets, recorded webinars, and other resources. We can only honor requests that contain a valid name, company name, and email address. Unfortunately, we cannot process requests for a Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, gmail, or mail.com account. Thank you for your understanding. |