There are many advantages of doing so, including reduced costs and increased efficiency. But just what is an SOA?

 

“An SOA is essentially a distributed applications framework,” BlueNote Networks Vice President of Marketing Sally Bament told TMCnet during a recent phone conversation. “It allows an enterprise to build applications out of reusable service components.”

 

Those service components can take a variety of forms, including credit card checks and dips into customer databases. One such service that Bament thinks will be of particular interest during 2007 is the initiation of a phone call from within an application.