An SOA is a business strategy that enables a company to more closely align and reuse existing technology to achieve business goals.

The new IBM SOA quality management portfolio, which includes Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere software as well as new technology services, will help improve the overall quality of technology in an SOA before it is deployed.

IBM said organizations are now recognizing the growing need to test and model an SOA before it is introduced across the company. For example, Trinity Software Solutions, an IBM Business Partner working with a U.S. Government agency involved in tax collection, processing and auditing, needed to ensure compliance, functionality, and performance of their customer's Web, SAP, mainframe and SOA applications. By governing quality across the entire IT lifecycle, Trinity Software is helping the U.S. Government agency improve team efficiency, produce higher quality software faster, reduce human errors involved in software testing, and mitigate software development and deployment risk.