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« The Serendipity and Surprises of SOA | Main | SOA Leaders Speak Out: This is Only the Beginning » May 31, 2007Mashups May Help Users Better Understand SOA Will Web 2.0 approaches such as application mashups finally bring SOA to the masses? Software AG technology evangelist Mighael Botha thinks so, describing mashups as "the face of SOA." That's because mashups are tangible and accessible, he says -- "something that I can take to a user, and say, 'Okay, this is a mashup that shows a single view of a customer within your organization.' Although typical business users may not relate to IT terms like 'enterprise service bus' and 'governance tools,' and even if users don't understand what a mashup is, they can be presented with a single view showing all kinds of data about customers or products through a Web 2.0 or AJAX front-end." As part of our series of podcasts with industry leaders that we launched in conjunction with InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum (held May 22-23 in New York), I had the chance to speak with MIchael. (Link to the podcast here from InfoWorld.) "ESBs use services that are foreign to the user," he says. "But the mashup is the real face of SOA, bringing business closer to an event-driven architecture to show them that they can really get useful information from the new technology that is being implemented." Botha also discussed how even with governance, businesses struggle with right-sizing in SOA initiatives. Services may not fit enterprise needs the way they are originally implemented. Right-sizing goes through constant measurement and optimization after implementation, says Botha. "After a third or fourth iteration of the release of a service or a software package, you typically get into a situation where everything has been optimized and that piece of software is right-sized." Web and Enterprise 2.0 technologies may simplify both governance and right-sizing, as well as boost overall SOA adoption, says Botha. (Click here at the InfoWorld site to hear the entire seven-minute podcast.) Posted by joemckendrick in SOA | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:
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