International standards consortium OASIS recently announced the formation of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) initiative to provide and promote standards that simplify service-oriented architecture application development. However, a number of factors will decide whether enterprises are to truly reap the benefits of a services-based approach.

Content Open CSA plans to promote the development and adoption of service component architecture (SCA) and service data objects (SDOs).

SCA is a number of specifications which provide a model for developing applications and systems using a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The approach builds on existing standards such as web services, and assists organizations to transform IT assets into reusable services.