Posted At : August 23, 2010 8:00 AM
| Posted By : Tony Giroti
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The question for CIOs is not that should they do SOA but what they need to do to do SOA. Service Oriented Architecture is not a technology or a product but a Strategy and an Approach. SOA is the way to create an Integration Architecture for the enterprise that is based upon “Loose Coupling” and Services. Other alternatives – i.e. P2P or EAI – are inflexible, un-scalable, complex and overall expensive. These alternatives can result in increased risk to the project and higher total cost of ownership.
Here are the core challenges based upon history and empirical data that should be used to plan for SOA:
- First, SOA is new to the Power industry. There have been numerous false starts in adopting SOA. Many of the early initiatives have failed on first try and are requiring a fresh restart – primarily due to lack of SOA vision, strategy and experience. Some early adopters had wrongfully assumed that buying an SOA tool was tantamount to doing SOA – and it’s not. Vision and strategy and technical leadership must precede the SOA tool procurement.
- Secondly, those who have embarked on the SOA journey are using the SOA tool in a very limited capacity without unleashing the true value of SOA – which is developing services and building a loosely coupled architecture. Many have deployed the SOA tool as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) but are using only the transport capability of the ESB to merely send and receive messages primarily through custom code that is based upon P2P approach. A Loosely Coupled Architecture and appropriate application of the tool will alleviate these issues.
- Thirdly, there are others who have used the tool without success and relegating the failure to limitation of the tool. Some in the latter group are considering even switching to another SOA tool in the hope of generating success from another tool. Fact is that most tools have over 80-90% overlap around basic functionality and the ones that being currently exercised. Most likely the tool is not an issue. The SG/DR Program mangers should re-evaluate their approach, methodology, technical leadership, architecture and project plans.
- Finally, many in our industry have outsourced are the Architecture and Integration to overseas companies or large organizations without appropriate project controls and technical leadership. These projects will be successful with appropriate project controls, technical leadership and project governance.
Posted At : August 10, 2010 8:00 AM
| Posted By : Tony Giroti
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We know of many Smart Grid projects that are not doing well. One wonders why. Although there are many reasons why that is the case, one thing is certain -- without a strategic IT architecture there...
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Posted At : December 7, 2009 8:00 AM
| Posted By : Tony Giroti
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OK... so let's first describe what is Strategy and Roadmap before we discuss building one for Smart Grid or any other Business and IT Transformation initiative. Chances are if you ask a dozen or so pe...
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Posted At : November 30, 2009 8:00 AM
| Posted By : Tony Giroti
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Compared to other industries, Information Technology has been an afterthought in the Energy industry.
IT as an afterthought - especially around application integration - continues to be the nor...
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Posted At : November 24, 2009 5:46 PM
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The Power industry has traditionally been a laggard in adopting Information Technology, either because of a lack of funding or the absence of business drivers mandating the development of a st...
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