The 70% Integration Assembly Opportunity

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Quinton Wall's Blog | October 11, 2007   4:38 PM | Comments (0)

I read an interesting analyst research paper the other day which resonated very well post BEAWorld Barcelona customer sessions which articulated a common misconception that "SOA makes integration problems go away. If many of the customers who spoke at BEAWorld are anything to go on this is certainly true.

To anyone at all familiar with the mantras of SOA, A major aspect of any solution is the ability to assemble and compose applications from standards based services. Within the report the analysts suggest that more than 70% of services in an organization are likely to assembled from existing assets. When you consider than this much of an organizations assets are likely to reside in non-SOA applications, the need for comprehensive integration is certainly not going away any time soon. In fact some of the core features of Integration including process orchestration, routing, transformation etc are going to be fundamental to accessing this 70%. If this report is even halfway accurate there is certainly a large area for opportunity to improve the ability to have a direct impact in reducing the complexity of Integration and SOA based solutions.

Perhaps its time to retire the 80/20 rule and work on the 70/30 rule when working with SOA Integration projects.

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