SOA for Business Technology Project in Open Group brings the REAL business relevance and value based on SOA implementations and lessons learned leveraging Best Practices.

1. 15 June 2012 1 © The Open Group 2012

2. SOA for Business Technology
Project Overview
July 16, 2012
Project co-chairs
Ahmad Yagoobi, The Boeing Company
Martin Neuhard, HP
Sundar Ramanathan, Cap Gemini

3. Presenter Profile
 Sundararajan Ramanathan – Enterprise Architect @ Capgemini since June 2006
 TOGAF 9 & Capgemini IAF Certified Architect -
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf9/cert/protected/certuploads/30487.pdf
 10 years at Compuware, Detroit, Michigan
 5 years at Informix Software, California
 B.Sc (Physics), B.E (Indian Institute of Science), MBA (Wayne State
University, Michigan)
 Open Group
 Co-Author : Legacy Evolution to SOA Guide
 Chair: SOA for Business Technology Project-
 NIST
 Contributor – NIST Cloud Computing Forum – Taxonomy, Reference
Architecture & Roadmap: Legacy Evolution to SOA Guide

4. Agenda
SOA4BT
Purpose SOA4BT
Project Brief Project Charter SOA4BT Touch Points
SOA4BT Business
SOA4BT Section Leaders Architecture - Definitions Q&A

5. Purpose
Need/ Requirement:
Companies in all industries and of all sizes have expressed a growing
need to create agile Flexible Business and IT Transformations
using a Service Oriented approach and style
The purpose of SOA for Business Technology (SOA4BT) project is to
provide a comprehensive approach and guidance to practicing
Enterprise Architects, Business leaders & users resulting in clarity
on SOA based Solutions using Business terms.
SOA4BT
Purpose
Project Brief

6. SOA4BT Project Brief
SOA for Business Technology Guide – with potential contents
 SOA4BT Definition(s) and FAQ
 Taxonomy
 Portfolio mapping and Service Landscape
 Rubric of KPIs and Dashboards
The first stage will be to leverage identified material from all SOA
projects related to the three ingredients of Service Landscape
(portfolio), Business Alignment, and Measures/Metrics relevant for
boundary-less information flow through SOA4BT.
The project team will then develop the SOA4BT
Definition and FAQ.
SOA4BT
Purpose
Project Brief

7. SOA4BT Project Charter
 Provide definition of business technology;
 Provide intersection point between business, enterprise architecture and SOA;
 Provide an overview of SOA business technology (SOA4BT) approaches and details in the participating member
organizations; (citing any case study taking out all vendor/product/client related content so that it can have the
organization/vendor/technology neutral view from The Open Group);
 Provide guidelines and mechanism to assess the business consequences and impact of not having SOA;
 Define a taxonomy for services landscape/portfolio, measures/metrics and SOA for Business Technology
alignment
 Provide a framework for service portfolio management, to enable alignment of business and IT through the
integration of capabilities (both business and IT), service portfolios, and service categorization;
 Leverage the Open Group technical standard Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), answering the most
urgent industry needs and provide inputs from SOA4BT Project to other SOA Work Group initiatives;
 Define SOA4BT measures, metrics and dashboards
 Define skill maps and education roadmaps for SOA4BT practitioners
https://collaboration.opengroup.org/projects/soa4bt/protected/index.php
SOA4BT
Project Charter

8. SOA4BT Touch Points
SOA WG Projects Definition Portfolio & Business Metrics &
Landscape Alignment Measures
(Taxonomy & RA)
TOGAF Next,
Practical Guide
SOA Governance
SOA Ontology &
Business Architecture
SOA RA
Security
Cloud Computing
SOA4BT Touch Points

9. SOA4BT Section Leaders
SOA4BT Touch points
Business Architecture Sections: Gerard Peters
TOGAF Next: Sriram Sabesan
SOA Governance: Sundar Ramanathan
OSIMM Model / SOA RA: Nikhil Kumar
Security: <TBD>
Cloud Computing / SOCCI : Nadhan Easwaran
Case Studies: Ahmad Yaghoobi
Relevance across Business Boundaries: <TBD>
Business Value Proposition: Marty Neuhard
SOA4BT Section Leaders

10. Definition – Business Architecture
Definitions
Leverage existing Open Group SOA WG
SOA
Create and adopt Industry Definitions
Business Technology
SOA4BT
SOA4BT Taxonomy
SOA Ontology / Reference Architecture Extensions
SOA4BT Business
Architecture - Definitions

11. Q&A
 Contact SOA4BT project team (soa-4bt@opengroup.org )
 Share results of your SOA4BT journey
 Feedback on SOA4BT guide TOC
Q&A
15 June 2012 11 © The Open Group 2012