Towards Technology Independent Strategies for SOA Implementations

TL;DR

This paper explores technology-independent strategies for SOA implementation by applying organization theory, proposing four preliminary strategies, and encouraging interdisciplinary research to complement existing technology-based approaches.

Contribution

It introduces a novel methodology for identifying technology-independent strategies for SOA, inspired by organization theory, and proposes four initial strategies to support SOA implementation.

Findings

Identified four preliminary, organization-inspired strategies for SOA implementation.

Proposed a new interdisciplinary methodology combining service-oriented computing and organization theory.

Encouraged further research into technology-independent approaches for SOA success.

Abstract

Benefiting from the technology based strategies, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been able to achieve the general goals such as agility, flexibility, reusability and efficiency. Nevertheless, technical conditions alone cannot guarantee successful SOA implementations. As a valuable and necessary supplement, the space of technology independent strategies should also be explored. Through treating SOA system as an instance of organization and identifying the common ground on the similar process of SOA implementation and organization design, this paper uses existing work in organization theory area to inspire the research into technology independent strategies of SOA implementation. As a result, four preliminary strategies that can be applied to organizational area we identify to support SOA implementations. Furthermore, the novel methodology of investigating technology independent strategies for implementing SOA is revealed, which encourages interdisciplinary research across service-oriented computing and organization theory.