Title: Evaluation
of Service-Oriented Architecture’s
Implementations Using Maturity Models
Abstract: Service-oriented
architecture (SOA) represents a
new information systems concept. It represents an extraordinary
challenge at scientific, practical and
economical level. That is a reason why SOA represents the topic of
many different researches. The dominant technology used
today in SOA implementations are web services. Web services
are technology that enables connection of the
different information systems, applications and platforms separated
by the Internet with the use of standard Web
protocols. The functionality of SOA and web services enables us
to consider profoundly the functioning of public
administration and to connect the separated databases, making an integral
information system of state and public
administration, with no relations to organizational boundaries which. The
drawback in this concept is the fact that implementation
of SOA is often not successful and one of the reasons for
this is the fact that organizations have not adopted and
fulfilled some basic SOA prerequisites. The
SOA prerequisites are not clearly defined. There are
some researches on this topic but they are mostly focused on
technical aspects of SOA implementation. This article
analyses necessary set of prerequisites which should be fulfil
by public administration attempting to implement SOA.
Since SOA implementation requests significant organizational
changes such set of prerequisites should
comprise not only from technical prerequisites but should take
into account data architecture, system integration and
compatibility, security and legislative requirements, business
requirements and organizational prerequisites. This
set of prerequisites can be defined as a Service-Oriented Architecture
Maturity Model and used to evaluate the
possibility for successful utilization of SOA in specific organization.
Authors: Sandro
Gerić
and Neven
Vrček