Solving the SaaS, SOA and Legacy Applications Sudoku

DM Review, May, 2008 by Mike Hoskins

The bright, shiny promise of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a happy world of applications that work together seamlessly, complete information visibility across the enterprise and provide a responsive environment that evolves quickly and easily as the IT infrastructure changes. But the reality is that even the most state-of-the-art SOA design must accommodate legacy applications, arcane but still-critical data sources and the fast-growing adoption by business users of low-cost, easy-to-adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications. Suddenly, the clear vision of rapidly implementing SOA and living in a simple, elegant world begins to cloud. The Sudoku you thought would be so straightforward to solve suddenly reveals its five-star difficulty rating - “Beware, very...

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