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Top 10 reasons SOA initiatives fail

A blog entry at CIO magazine’s website discusses the top 10 reasons service oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives fail.

The top five:

• People fail to explore SOA’s business value

• they underestimate the impact of organizational change

• they fail to secure executive buy-in

• they attempt to do SOA cheaply

• and they lack the skill to deliver SOA properly.

Reprinted with permission © 2008 TreeTop Technologies

Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 2 Issue 8 August 2008

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