Impacts of service oriented architecture (SOA) on enterprise systems and organizational structures

Abstract

In today’s fast-paced global economy, organizations need to be focusing on becoming agile and flexible enough support dynamically changing business requirements in this on demand environment. One of the most critical steps towards this objective is aligning IT systems using service oriented architecture (SOA) to enable end-to-end business process orchestration and enterprise integration. On the other hand, the real value of SOA will be realized when SOA overarches technology and is extended to improve the organizational structure and behavioral model of the organization as successful SOA implementations require cooperation and involvement on many levels. In this paper, the possible changes needed to be introduced during SOA transformation will be examined in detail. Initially a description, main concepts and challenges of SOA will be briefly explained. Then, the changes to be introduced in the organizations will be provided. Finally, the results of the analysis performed on the collected survey data will be presented.