Six critical IT operations questions for a successful SOA deployment

There’s a lot of talk about service-oriented architecture (SOA). Organizations eagerly anticipate the increased development flexibility it can bring as well as its promise to speed business innovation. Much less discussed is the importance of the IT operations department to SOA success. To fully capitalize on the value of SOA, IT operations must work with the enterprise SOA team to define standards that will ensure efficient implementation, management and operation. This paper presents six questions IT operations should ask the enterprise architecture team before making the leap to a more dynamic, SOA-based environment.