Manas Sarkar

SOA in the Cloud Cloud Computing Expo - Today, every IT enablement and business transformation task has an element of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) embedded in it. However, even with matured SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) processes for IT execution, the gap in identifying business services for an SOA implementation still remain. Architects and business stakeholders are generally found struggling with questions such as "When should we identify a service?"; "Who should be identifying them?"; "What should be a service and why?" Service identification in enterprise architecture involves realizing the enterprise's business vision. However, the business vision statement often gets lost as stakeholders confront and struggle with day-to-day activities. Therefore, it is essential for IT to be clear about business objectives when answering service identification... (more)