<<We at SearchSOA.com have a number of SOA user stories in the works at the moment and it strikes me that we could just about churn out a case study a day at this point in time. Last month at the IBM Impact conference, I blogged that seemingly every type of business imaginable has been embracing service orientation.
We’re encountering more big SOA projects than ever before and you’ve got to wonder what the working rationale is these days for an app dev project that isn’t loosely coupled and conformant with an enterprise architecture. What’s the counter argument? Obviously it can be less expensive in the short term and less complex to throw applications together in piecemeal fashion, but over time that approach becomes costly. It’s also a mess from an engineering standpoint.
Here are some of the most recent examples:
Cars.com turned to SOA to help it with rapid growth
Deutsche Post used service orientation to blend Java and .NET apps in a CRM system
Con-way plans on building mobile apps for its transportation fleet based on the composite development its pursued over the past decade
Business process orchestration has become a key for online real estate company Move Inc.
SOA taught the Delaware Electric Cooperative the importance of BPM
Insurance industry information provider MIB Inc. rebuilt its entire business around SOA
You can find links to 18 other SOA case studies in our top stories of 2007 compilation. The number of users who can document proven success with SOA is exploding. Does it deliver as advertised in every situation? No, nothing does and that’s why we go out and try to find the users with best practices to share. This is a complex field, but the ranks of users who’ve found the benefits justify tackling the complexity are growing almost daily.
Here’s a question for those who don’t count SOA as a core competency in their app dev shop: why?>>
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