SOA Assessment Framework
As organisations are taking initiatives towards investments in SOA, it is important for them to assess their maturity in their SOA journey. We have developed an SOA assessment framework (available at www.infosys.com/IT-services/architecture-services/soa/soa-survey/soa.htm). The SOA Assessment Framework is a questionnaire based approach which enables stakeholders to assess the SOA maturity of an organization based on an analysis of its business and IT resources and capabilities. The framework is a useful tool for decision makers to have an initial understanding of the state of the organization in terms of SOA planning, roadmap to mature SOA as well as the SOA strategy and action items which need to be implemented to achieve SOA maturity. By categorizing organizations across five levels of maturity, the framework allows for a quick and easy assessment of an organisation’s SOA maturity. The five levels being Level 1: Assessment and Planning Phase, Level 2: Trial Phase, Level 3: Limited implementation Phase, Level 4: Enterprise wide SOA and Level 5: Enterprise wide SOA extending to partners. SOA assessment framework adopts a questionnaire based approach. The questionnaire has 23 questions which are categorized into sub-sections such as such as Business, SOA Strategy and Roadmap, Architecture, Training and Development and SOA Governance. The output from the SOA Assessment framework would be both quantitative as well as qualitative. The quantitative analysis would be both cumulative scores across sections as well as within each sub-section. The qualitative analysis would be section and question specific in addition to high level analysis of the results.
