An Analysis of Business Agility Indicators in SOA Deployments
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چکیده
Business agility is often claimed as one of the primary benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). However neither this claim, nor the effect of individual SOA practices on business agility, has been empirically investigated in a systematic way. In this paper we explore the impact of architectural concerns, business process management, infrastructure support for impact analysis, loose coupling between services, and governance practices upon the achieved business agility of a SOA project. We present a study which reports the technical practices of 39 SOA projects from multiple domains in order to identify technical factors which most closely correlate with business agility. Finally we demonstrate how the findings from our study can be used to increase business agility practices in a SOA project.
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