Foreword
I remain convinced that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is at least a “next big thing.” SOA is about delivering on the promise of best-of-breed IT by unleashing the shared business services that are currently bound up in monolithic and often isolated applications.
In my experience, there is nothing that does more to protect IT investment long-term than SOA: With SOA
You can more closely align IT resources with their business functions.
You can more easily deliver composite applications that provide unified, task-oriented views across the business (such as via automated business-process management or workflow).
You can achieve greater application life-cycle flexibility by incrementally managing requirements and change.
You can more easily ...
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