SOA and the mainframe

So, SOA – Service Orientated Architecture - its now a pretty common term bandied around at coffee machines and canteens and IT professionals are realizing that its happening. Probably slowly in a company near you , but happening all the same. The SOA concept has grown out of the MI and Data Warehousing revolutions of the recent past and is the transactional equivalent, i.e. Enterprise wide Browsing is now moving into Edit mode! as companies start to create services and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) that snap together like lego into Business Processes. It is IT evolution and natural selection will pick off the weak as usual. Enterprises have to do something to get from A. inflexible, complex multiple IT systems with a monolithic mainframe backbone that’s even more inflexible, to B. flexible business process across a manageable (perhaps virtual) set of IT systems with the Mainframe opened up (still central) and fully integrated.

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