SOA at The Open Group
There was more business mentioned than I have ever heard before, forcing me to think that many of the attendees might actually go back to their office cubes and get to work on building their own business domain skills and financial prowess.
What struck me though was the emphasis or lack of on data and process architecture. The workshops, presentations and discussions focused a lot on application and governance, but lesser on simplifying process and data complexity. This is the next big challenge and opportunity in the market. I took time to test it with several attendees from product vendors to current and potential clients, the decision was made “we need it”!
With global economies becoming flatter and mutli-polar the systems will keep getting more personalized and complex. It will be the architect's role to keep the systems connected, accurate, nimble and most important simple.
The conference and the discussions are far from over, but one fact is certain, the CIO and Enterprise architects are on the most wanted list.
