The document provides an overview of the SOA for Business Technology (SOA4BT) project. The project aims to provide guidance for implementing SOA solutions using business terms. It is being led by co-chairs from The Boeing Company, HP, and Capgemini. The project will define SOA4BT and provide a framework for aligning business and IT through service portfolios, taxonomy, and metrics. Section leaders from various companies are contributing to areas like business architecture, TOGAF, governance, security and cloud computing. An initial draft of the whitepaper is in progress.

1. SOA for Business Technology
Project Overview
Jan 23, 2013
Project co-chairs
Ahmad Yagoobi, The Boeing Company
Martin Neuhard, HP
Sundar Ramanathan, Capgemini
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2. 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
 Project Chair: SOA for Business Technology Project-
 NIST
 Contributor – NIST Cloud Computing Forum – Taxonomy, Reference
Architecture & Roadmap: Legacy Evolution to SOA Guide
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3. SOA + Cloud + BigData + Mobility + ?What NEXT?
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4. Agenda
SOA4BT
Purpose SOA4BT
Project Brief Project Charter SOA4BT Touch Points
SOA4BT Business
SOA4BT Section Leaders Architecture - Definitions Q&A
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SOA4BT Section Leaders
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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
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11. Current Status for SOA4BT Whitepaper
 Document Status
– Initial draft of SOA4BT paper started (v.5)
– Writing assignments given to section leaders.
– Draft sections for over 60% of the standard complete
– SOA4BT working group comments submitted to section leaders of completed sections for
incorporation
– Business Driver, KPI to OSIMM matrix started
 Working Group Status
– Working group meets every 2 weeks to discuss updates and next steps
– Core working group of about 6 members meet regularly
 Current driving discussions
– How do we bridge the Gap between Business Services and actual IT services?
– How do we bring SOA principles to Business Leaders to help transform business
processes to create a more flexible IT base?
– What KPIs are important to the business, how can IT transformations be tracked in
business terms?
– If you would like to contribute to these discussions contact: soa-4bt@opengroup.org
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12. Q&A
 Contact SOA4BT project team (soa-4bt@opengroup.org )
 Share results of your SOA4BT journey
 Feedback on SOA4BT guide TOC
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