The South East Asia SOA Weblog

SOA initiative involves a great deal of investment for companies truly want to venture into it. The good solutions and expertise required to implement a successful SOA project are costly and sometimes rare to find.

Many vendors may claim that they can do SOA, but they may come without real-life and sufficient experience implementing it. This may pose a great risk towards the project success. SOA is more than just connecting legacy applications through WSDL, it involves solid methodology and proper execution of the entire spectrum which extends from proper ROI analysis, business analysis, service discovery, SOA governance, implementation to deployment and system maintenance.

Provided with proper solution and solid expertise and experience to run it, the investment involved may look small compared to the return that business will enjoy from successful SOA implementation, but IT managers often face with problems justifying the investment to the management in the beginning.

Proper ROI analysis and justification are essential towards convincing the management that the investment made will have its return within measurable amount of time. IT managers also face the challenges of choosing the best suited solution and engaging the right SOA consulting company that can help to drive the project in the right direction.

I would like to ask everybody in this blog to share their experience in managing an SOA project from initial ROI justification to go-live and system maintenance.

Oracle to acquire BEA Systems

With Oracle acquisition of BEA Systems, there’s a major change in SOA solution provider political map. What once are competitors in SOA solution provider landscape now joint under one umbrella, the mighty Oracle. BEA’s strong hold on Telco industry will strengthen Oracle’s grip over that sector.

What will happen to BEA AquaLogic product line after the acquisition? As Larry Ellison puts it, BEA and Oracle solutions will co-exist and integrated, instead of merged. Will Oracle be competing with itself when marketing either e.g. Oracle BPEL PM vs. BEA AquaLogic BPM?