The Business Implications of SOA

by Brian J. Dooley

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is meant to enable greater flexibility and improved alignment between business processes and applications. By separating individual services and permitting them to be provided in composite applications, the concept has some revolutionary consequences for IT infrastructure. It is also aligned with business process management (BPM), and some tout it as a paradigm-shifting technology. Most large companies are now implementing SOA in some form, and success stories are starting to command attention.

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The Business Implications of SOA1 March 2008