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Challenges of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - From the public sector perspective

Knutsson, Max LU and Glennow, Thomas LU (2015) INFK11 20151
Department of Informatics
Abstract
The Swedish government started its initiative for electronic services (e-services) in 2005 to create the infrastructure for information management, optimize the government, and potentially save tax money. The technological paradigm Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was adopted to facilitate the Swedish government's initiative. The purpose of SOA is to increase efficiency for developing e-services. Nonetheless, several challenges remain with SOA implementations and there is little research exploring the challenges faced by the public sector specifically. This thesis aims to highlight the challenges faced by the public sector when implementing SOA. The authors conducted a semi-structured interview study involving four IT Architects working... (More)
The Swedish government started its initiative for electronic services (e-services) in 2005 to create the infrastructure for information management, optimize the government, and potentially save tax money. The technological paradigm Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was adopted to facilitate the Swedish government's initiative. The purpose of SOA is to increase efficiency for developing e-services. Nonetheless, several challenges remain with SOA implementations and there is little research exploring the challenges faced by the public sector specifically. This thesis aims to highlight the challenges faced by the public sector when implementing SOA. The authors conducted a semi-structured interview study involving four IT Architects working closely with SOA development. Moreover, the authors reviewed the literature to identify the SOA challenges and to create a theoretical framework to support the validity of the empirical findings.

Results & Conclusion
The empirical findings reveal 13 challenges met by the public sector. They are real-time communication, service cooperation, testing, reliability, security, legacy software migration, legacy migration cost estimation, SOA governance, vendor software customization, Organizational change, slow IT adoption, lack of strategy, and SOA owners. The most commonly reported challenge is SOA governance. This challenge is associated with the lack of technological understanding by the management, as well as with the caution about adopting new technologies. Three of the identified challenges were not found in the literature review. They were slow IT adoption, lack of strategy, and difficulties in finding SOA owners. (Less)
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author
Knutsson, Max LU and Glennow, Thomas LU
supervisor
organization
course
INFK11 20151
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture, SOA Challenges, Public Sector, Web Services, Lack of technical understanding
report number
INF15-043
language
English
id
5474131
date added to LUP
2015-08-20 14:51:57
date last changed
2015-08-20 14:51:57
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  abstract     = {{The Swedish government started its initiative for electronic services (e-services) in 2005 to create the infrastructure for information management, optimize the government, and potentially save tax money. The technological paradigm Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was adopted to facilitate the Swedish government's initiative. The purpose of SOA is to increase efficiency for developing e-services. Nonetheless, several challenges remain with SOA implementations and there is little research exploring the challenges faced by the public sector specifically. This thesis aims to highlight the challenges faced by the public sector when implementing SOA. The authors conducted a semi-structured interview study involving four IT Architects working closely with SOA development. Moreover, the authors reviewed the literature to identify the SOA challenges and to create a theoretical framework to support the validity of the empirical findings.

Results & Conclusion
The empirical findings reveal 13 challenges met by the public sector. They are real-time communication, service cooperation, testing, reliability, security, legacy software migration, legacy migration cost estimation, SOA governance, vendor software customization, Organizational change, slow IT adoption, lack of strategy, and SOA owners. The most commonly reported challenge is SOA governance. This challenge is associated with the lack of technological understanding by the management, as well as with the caution about adopting new technologies. Three of the identified challenges were not found in the literature review. They were slow IT adoption, lack of strategy, and difficulties in finding SOA owners.}},
  author       = {{Knutsson, Max and Glennow, Thomas}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Challenges of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - From the public sector perspective}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}