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SOA: The dream of a common language

07.11.2005
SOA isn't a revolutionary new technology that will necessitate ripping, replacing, or relearning everything you know. Rather, SOA is an evolutionary step in interoperability. And it is good news for any business or IT executive who has ever dreamed of a technology framework flexible enough to respond to real world business processes.

This knowledge comes from Andy Brown, chief technology architect at the financial services company Merrill Lynch, who spoke Monday at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum in New York.

Brown has a lot of knowledge to impart. Merrill Lynch is ahead of the pack in SOA deployment and Brown is right there in the trenches.

SOA is a framework architecture and a way of thinking, not another new technology, Brown said.

Although SOA is evolutionary it is changing how we do business and, unlike many buzzword IT acronyms, it is here to stay.

First off, SOA requires enterprise architecture and a vision for your company's business processes, Brown said.