How to improve ROI with SOA?
I was talking to a colleague of mine on using SOA in integration projects, when she cut through the chaff and asked me if we could show a better ROI when a project is done using SOA versus doing it "traditionally". Traditional means could be either by custom programming or buying commercial integration components/products, which would essentially be EAI. Most of the organizations are aware of EAI products and are engaged in doing integration using them in some form or the other, which leads us to the following questions:
- Can doing an integration project with SOA get a significantly better ROI vs. doing it with EAI products?
- In either case, do we need to optimize our business processes too to see a better ROI?
