Bob Buffone

We are at an inflection point in the SOA roll out: with enterprises developing infrastructure and deploying services, the attention is now turning to how to deliver the services to the end user, increase service reuse, and deal with governance. The last mile of SOA needs to be bridged in order for IT to fully reap the benefits of their efforts by squeezing the last bit of ROI out of their infrastructure. To achieve this, IT needs to make SOA tangible to end users, while maintaining enterprise control and reliability. Service Oriented Architectures: Meaningful to IT, Intangible to End-Users? Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have become a de facto approach for engineering back-office IT systems. SOA provides IT with the benefit of being able to create, integrate and r... (more)