SOA filling the Gaps

After lecturing on SOA  concepts, Architecture and Technology, I present Case Studies . While presenting Case Studies , I ask my students: "Why many Case Studies and Success Stories are from the Telco industry?"  Usually they do not provide a good answer to the good question. It is a good question because the answer is based upon Business dimension, Technology dimension and the relationship between the two dimensions.  Why SOA implementation is necessary for Traditional Telco Service Companies? For many years, Traditional Telco companies revenues were based upon telephone calls billing. In USA Bell Labs was split to Baby Bells. In other countries these companies were Monopolies or Duopolies .   Due to lack of competition, their revenues were high. When Voice over IP matured they found a lot cheaper competition such as Skype .  When someone traveled to other countries, he called his family in his home country. The Telco service providers earn...

A leading Cellular network company in Israel, Partner Communications Company Ltd ., provider of the Orange network in Israel, presented its SOA implementation in December 26 th meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing . I am moderating the forum since its imitation on March 2005. The forum meetings take place once in a month. The forum is opened for anyone involved or interested in SOA activities. Most of the meetings included presentations and discussions. The 16 th meeting was exceptional: experts' panel on SOA Governance . The presenter was Iddo Rachlewski (Infrastructure Applications Development Manager). Aharon Winder Partner's CTO , who joined us, answered the toughest questions asked by forum members. Background The Telecom service industry business model and technological infrastructure is changing due to Web based IP phone services, Wireless & Cellular communication and the need to transfer new types of data in additi...