Is SOA Expensive: Reality and the Myth?
Industry is adopting SOA more and more. CIOs are under tremendous pressure to show the value of SOA to the Business. Business is asking more and more questions about the benefit of SOA. To Business, SOA is too expensive and does not bring enough value to business early enough (long gestation period). So CIOs are asking several questions around SOA to the technology service providers in search of a convincing answer and one question keeps getting repeated ‘Is SOA expensive – if not how and why?’
There is no straight answer to this question. One could argue for both sides of the camps and still make conclusion on either way. Let’s see why SOA is considered to be expensive by the people who are not so close to IT. There are several factors why SOA is perceived to be expensive (I would say only ‘to begin with’). But, remember SOA is expensive at the ‘beginning’ as there are few upfront investments required on Software Licenses, Infrastructures, Training etc. The lists below are the key areas of investments:
- Service Design: Making a component re-usable is typically 2.5 times more expensive as compared to having a piece of code which wouldn’t be re-used at all having the same functionality. This means when we create a Service we have to ensure that it’s going be re-used at least 3 times in the future.
Continue reading "Is SOA Expensive: Reality and the Myth?" »
