Reading today's headline on the CW Website "CIOs are winning the business value battle" made me think of our ROI guilty little secret.
Despite putting a lot of time and effort into our SOA programme over the past 3 years, we had never re-used a web service. Whilst I remained committed to the benefits of SOA, it was starting to seem a pretty expensive way of doing point-to-point interfaces. There always seemed to be a reason why an existing web service wasn't right for a new application. Anyway, we've now re-used two web services (admittedly both with additional web service 'wrappers' to refocus them slightly) - the first of many.
Are we the only ones, or does anyone else have a guilty secret they would like to share?
