“Enabling certain business users to manage and evolve business processes without direct IT involvement is one of the most ambitious of SOA goals, and for good reason–such a vision requires bulletproof governance as well as mature tooling that’s only now beginning to reach the market,” wrote ZapThink senior analyst Jason Bloomberg in a January 2007 ZapFlash research note.

Beyond the nod to governance, Bloomberg’s comments hint at another trend in SOA analysis that, aside from providing another way to think about ROI, may have profound implications for in-house technologists of all stripes. Namely, SOA seems to be simultaneously eroding and elevating the place of IT in business.

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