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Los Angeles County
Department of Public Social Services
LEADER Replacement System (LRS)
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SOA Excellence Model
1. Standards – SOA is comprised of many standards which are managed by several
standard bodies. It will be very important to stay on top of standard developments since
they will have a large impact on SOA architecture. Attending conferences, monitoring
discussion groups, and regularly checking W2C, OASIS, and WS-I Websites are all key
activities.
2. Vendors & Analysts – Relationships with key vendors is important in order to keep
abreast of product developments and vendor visions for SOA. Subscribing to industry
analysts newsletters is also a good way of staying informed.
3. State & Federal Collaboration – The Federal Enterprise Architecture Group and its
ancillary operations set the standard for states to follow. Additionally, many states are in
the process of implementing SOA-based models. So, ongoing collaboration with other
states makes good sense.
4. Operations Feedback – The SOA vision and goals must be practical. So, feedback
from SOA operations must be factored into the vision and goals must be updated
accordingly.
5. Briefings & Targeted Presentations – SOA means different things to different people.
So, preparing presentations that are targeted to a particular group will be most effective.
For example, executives, business architects, technical architects, and IT developers all
have different priorities within SOA. So, presenting SOA in terms of specific audience
type would be most effective.
1. Demos – An SOA Center of Excellence is a great place to demonstrate the SOA
environment. Demos can be built to support the presentations targeted at specific
audiences. Often, it is easier to understand a point by witnessing a demo. Plus, a demo
proves out an environment and allows “what if” scenarios.
2. Reference Architecture – An SOA environment should exist as the model for
developers. That is, a reference implementation that incorporates key SOA components
would provide developers platform-specific components to measure their services
against. The Reference Architecture would include both J2EE and .NET components.
3. Executive SOA Discussion Group – Sponsoring an SOA discussion group for
executives would be one way of providing executives with an easy mechanism for
exchanging thoughts and ideas.
LRS RFP - Attachment H (Technical Exhibits) Page 36 November 30, 2007