Service-Oriented Architecture promises agile, open information technology solutions that will enable businesses to better serve the customer, to reduce costs and to be more competitive. SOA is not something that can be ordered for next day delivery. It is an ideology that can get lost in the rush to meet deadlines.
There are so many ways in which to expose core business functions that are locked away in legacy applications that there is almost no excuse for not doing it. Trouble is that there seems to be a general perception that programatic integration with legacy applications is un-reliable. In my experience this is not the case.
There are many vendors in this market with many years of experiencing in providing tools for just this job. The biggest challenge for an IT department these days is choosing the right tool from the right vendor. Proof of Concept, dude! There is no such thing as a bad POC; except for a vendor of course :-)
I'll be upfront about the purpose of this web log. It is a place to share ideas and dicuss technical details. It is not a place to promote one vendor over another. This is a big deal, I am a Solution Architect for a vendor of Legacy Application Integration tools.
There are a lot of misconceptions about integrating with Legacy applications, and I am hoping that this will be a place to dispell many of them.
James
June 2006
Atlanta
1 comment:
James,
Brilliant! As SOA reaches a critical mass throughout the industry the need is paramount to share thoughts, ideas and experiences with Legacy Integration among peers. I personally look forward to sharing and learning from this forum.
Cheers,
Charles
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