Everybody’s talking about business agility and business velocity these days. From digital transformation to DevOps, leveraging disruption and moving more quickly to meet ever-changing customer demands is the enterprise IT price of admission.
The CIO, however, has bigger problems to worry about. Intractable legacy challenges. Mobile devices in everyone’s pocket. Rigid, often arcane regulatory compliance requirements. And then there’s the cloud.
On the one hand, new applications, increasingly powerful tools, and rising stakeholder expectations, all within the context of constrained budgets, lead the IT executive to focus on doing more with less. But on the other hand, the complex, brittle mess of legacy continues to loom, like some giant spider in a Middle Earth lair.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was intended to solve this rats’ nest legacy problem by abstracting legacy application and data assets as business services that facilitate flexible processes. Sounds wonderful in theory, but in practice many IT shops got bogged down in the middleware, and even for those architecture-savvy organizations who actually got loosely coupled services up and running, SOA governance issues rose to the fore, creating a new set of challenges.
Read the entire article at https://medium.com/compliance-at-velocity/compliance-at-velocity-soa-governance-and-the-power-tool-problem-63f8619dd923.
