The first question one has to ask here is do you not see your organization being a medium or large organization in the future? If so this becomes rhetorically a question about where your organization will be in 5 years time.
SOA is more a business concept than a technical concept. One would have to assume that organizations are continually striving to improve their ‘services’ and the delivery of those services. The services your organizations provide are improved by:
- Speeding up delivery of the service.
- Removing red tape.
- Ensuring a consistent result when the service is used each time.
- Ensuring that when things go wrong (as they will), that you deal properly with the failure to the satisfaction of your customer.
From an IT perspective, exactly the same process applies. You should be looking at the parts of your services that are repetitive and thus take time. Identifying where it make sense to use IT (for manual, repetitive tasks) and where it doesn’t (where a human being is absolutely needed) is the first step to mapping many of your existing manual procedures involved in a providing a service to lower level services that can be implementing efficiently and consistently using a SOA IT Infrastructure.
From that perspective, SOA is for every level of organization; while there is a perception out there that SOA tools and technology is too cost prohibitive for small organizations, this is not the case. There are many tools and services around for implementing SOA which charge based on usage which is cost effective for even the smallest organizations.
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