Dan Sholler

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Daniel Sholler
Research VP
13 years at Gartner
25 years IT industry

Daniel Sholler is a vice president in Gartner, where he advises clients on issues around application architecture, integration and development. Mr. Sholler is an authority on service-oriented architecture, and his current research focuses on… Read Full Bio

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Building the SOA business case

by Dan Sholler  |  December 3, 2008  |  Comments Off

We all know that building the business case for many IT and infrastructure related projects is quite difficult. I and my colleagues Anthony Bradley, Roy Schulte, and Paolo Malinverno have summarized the best practices we have observed in a research note that was just published today .  This technique represents a pragmatic approach to creating a business case for SOA, and probably could be applied to many other types of activities as well.  Even if you are well on your way to establishing SOA as normal means of designing IT systems, it will be helpful to take a look at this approach and apply it to upcoming projects, as it enables you to identify those aspects of SOA that directly contribute to business performance. Once this type of technique is in place.. all sorts of things, from budget requisitions to measurement schemes, become much easier. It also helps in the never-ending task of justifying the value of the IT organization.  I encourage you all to take a look.

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