Service Oriented Architecture is the hot movement in IT right now, and rightly so. It leverages code in a way that makes it flexible and reusable, integrates legacy and one-off systems, and solves just about every other problem in the world.
So, if you're bringing this to your organization, good for you. A key piece to your soa roadmap should be an effective Data Management plan. Your Data Management plan should include Data Quality, Metadata, and Data Governance.
Lets face it, soa will integrate all your systems and allow for sharing across many lines of business and systems. But, what is shared? The Data. Let me reiterate that... The reason for soa is so that data and information are processed more efficiently and effectively.
So, doesn't it then make sense that your data needs to be well managed, controlled, clean, etc? Well... yes.
Metadata will level set everyone in the organization as to what the data actually means. Hopefully you have an enterprise data dictionary, but if you don't, write that down as task #1.
Data Governance will provide the proactive and reactive management needed to ensure everyone agrees on what a field is to be used for. The results of this end up in the metadata repository mentioned above.
Data Quality checks for data anomalies and procedures should kick-out any outliers to be manually or systematically corrected based on business rules.
So, be sure to integrate an effective Data Management plan in your SOA roadmap, otherwise it will be a bumpy road at best.
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