Build Your Own Enterprise SOA Marketplace
posted by John Spacey, March 04, 2013SOA has great potential to break down technology silos, simplify your technology stack, reduce costs and improve quality. However, there are often political roadblocks to a SOA strategy:
- technology silos have little visibility to what each other are doing
- departments compete with each other and have little incentive to share their services
- budget issues - who pays for shared services?
Enterprise Architecture teams tasked with breaking down these silos and service reuse take various approaches:
- create departments responsible for common services
- governance: force people to share services
- collaboration: encourage people to use share services
However, these approaches have a poor track record. All three approaches tend (with the possible exception of collaboration) to generate more political issues rather than breaking them down.
A New Approach
Allow competition to drive common solutions. Give incentives to silos to build and share common services by creating a marketplace for SOA services within your organization.The marketplace should:
- allow departments to advertise available services
- allow departments to price services by various models (flat rate subscription, user based, volume, free etc..)
Example: An investment bank has dozens of silos that collect market data. After establishing a SOA marketplace two or three of these departments may decide to offer market services. The best service will become the most popular with time.
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