Yesterday I participated in a seminar about SOA and BEA AquaLogic ESB. One of the presentations was about BEAs SOA Domainmodel with 6 domains with best practices in organizational, financial, operational, design and delivery aspects:



The six distinct domains are interrelated and interdependent and essential for a successfull SOA-implementation. One of the most important domains are governance and management, which is also a important aspect of EA. The whitepater about the Domainmodel can be downloaded free from here.

On http://contact2.beasys.com/bea/www/soa_benchmark/login.jsp?TRK=1&LNG=AMER&PC=10SOSO3 can your organization take a SOA Readiness Assessment and after 24 hours you can get a customized Service-Oriented Architecture Benchmarking Report. It is very interesting and I will make one for Økonomistyrelsen.

Some of the other interesting aspects was:

- Importance of combining SOA with EA.
- The first SOA-project (pilot-project) will be very costfull and timeconsuming and the benefits will first be achieved after 2-3 projects. Therefor is SOA an investment in the long term.
- The BEA AquaLogic ESB also consist functionality for Security based on SAML 1.1, digital signatures, SSL etc. Moreover is SOAP/HTTP-messaging done with WS-I compliance.