SOA is a standards-based design approach to creating an integrated IT infrastructure capable of rapidly responding to changing business needs. SOA provides the principles and guidance to transform a company’s existing array of heterogeneous, distributed, complex and inflexible IT resources into integrated, simplified and highly flexible resources that can be changed and composed to more directly support business goals.
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April 8th, 2009elifeinchrist
A business's ability to respond to changing market
conditions — agility — will determine its competitiveness
and ability to survive. To attain agility, business needs a
method of removing barriers between business and IT,
and reducing the complexity of heterogeneous IT
environments. SOA does this through an approach for
building modular (loosely coupled, reusable) services with
well-defined interfaces that encapsulate business
processes. These reusable assets can be quickly
repurposed and recombined to create new functionality
that allows business to respond to constant change. Wellarchitected
SOA supports multi-platform, heterogeneous
environments, and accommodates new as well as legacy
business systems and processes. Service-oriented
architectures provide agility, stability, predictability and
manageability in a highly distributed and chaotic
component world.
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April 8th, 2009elifeinchrist
SOA is a standards-based design approach to creating an integrated IT infrastructure capable of rapidly responding to changing business needs. SOA provides the principles and guidance to transform a company’s existing array of heterogeneous, distributed, complex and inflexible IT resources into integrated, simplified and highly flexible resources that can be changed and composed to more directly support business goals.
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