B2B – A Path to Rapid SOA Value
In the last couple of days, I had meetings with 8 different federal and state government organizations. As with commercial entities, many government IT groups struggle to get broad participation and true buy-in with respect to basic SOA concepts such as re-use. Everyone is happy to pay lip service to the ‘goodness’ of sharing web services and leveraging capabilities across various parts of a government. However, when push comes to shove, many hide in their bunkers and hope that SOA is another one of those things in the ’this too shall pass’ category, just like objects and earlier initiatives came and went.
Interestingly, I ran into three examples where breakthroughs occurred when SOA leaders looked beyond sharing within their government. Instead, they looked at providing services to external constituents like businesses, consumers and other governments. Suddenly, they ran into opportunities to actually charge a small amount of money for things like a service that allowed a new business hoping to get started to fill out a few common forms rather than dozens and dozens of forms. This bit of funding and the notion of common cause that kept yet another government inefficiency story out of the papers, got several of the recalcitrant players to actually play ball!
With that in mind, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight the sessions that Benoit Lheureux is doing on B2B at the Summit:
- How to Modernize Your B2B Infrastructure
- Best Practices for Multi-Enterprise Computing
- Best Practices for B2B SOA
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1 Pascal Winckel // Dec 5, 2008 at 5:19 pm
There’s also a session by Frank Kenney on governance for B2B SOA that is worth seeing – Governance Helps Fulfill the Promise of B2B Web Services and SOA.
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