The “S” Stands for Service: An Interview with Sandy Carter, IBM’s VP of SOA Strategy
A published author and the executive in charge of
IBM’s Service Oriented Architecture and Websphere strategy,
Sandy Carter met with Linux Magazineto discuss how SOA can solve
immediate business problems and form the foundation of flexible,
responsive information technology infrastructure.
There’s no shortage of hype about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Ask any tier one infrastructure vendor or middleware solution provider and the company is sure to tell you that SOA is squarely at the heart of modern enterprise infrastructure. Without SOA, according to the vendor your business will never be nimble enough to compete in today’s marketplace.
But like many hyped technologies, there’s also no shortage of confusion around SOA. Is it a technology? A methodology? A process? A design regimen? Or all of the above? And how can you calculate the benefits of SOA beyond being “more flexible?”
To address some of these questions, Linux Magazine turned to Sandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy for IBM. Since 2005, Ms. Carter has led IBM’s entry into the SOA marketplace and, by a number of analyst metrics, has helped make IBM the marketplace leader for SOA solutions.
Linux Magazine’s Adam Goodman and Bryan Richard spoke with Ms. Carter about the need for flexibility in IT infrastructure, the difficulties of measuring the return on investment of adopting SOA, and the cultural shift enterprises should expect when moving to SOA.
Linux Magazine: What is IBM’s vision of SOA?
Sandy Carter: IBM’s vision for SOA doesn’t start with products, it starts with the business. We take it very seriously that the “S” in SOA stands for “Service,” which you can define as a business task or business requirement. Our conversation with customers start with “What are you trying to…
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