Analyzing the SOA ability of standard software packages with a dedicated architecture maturity framework
Helge Buckow
, Hans-Jürgen Groß
, Gunther Piller
, Karl Prott
, Johannes Willkomm
and Alfred Zimmermann
Abstract
The SOA Innovation Lab investigates the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a part of this investigation the SOA capabilities of products from different vendors need to be evaluated. For this purpose a SOA architecture maturity framework has been developed, leveraging and extending CMMI and TOGAF, as well as other state-of-the art frameworks and methods. Besides details about our framework, we present and analyze first results from the assessment of various vendor platforms.
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