“The role we see is for an enterprise architect,” says Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink, an XML research firm. “When you use Web services as part of an SOA that is when you need corporate direction. The companies that don’t have architectural leadership will end up with a rat’s nest architecture.”

Bloomberg says the skill set of these enterprise architects will have to range from experience with software development and hands-on coding to understanding the business processes that drive an organization.

“These architects will need to be both left- and right-brain people,” Bloomberg says.

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