Are you implementing SOA the right way? Will your SOA serve your business, allowing you to leverage opportunities and mitigate threats, over the long-term?

SOA is a valuable tool in today's business environment. It allows architects to break down monolithic applications into discrete services that can be reused in a variety of applications. By exposing information and transactions as services in an abstracted, standards-based way, SOA provides a foundation for new classes of business applications - composite applications that are assembled from a mix of existing and new service logic as opposed to being built entirely from scratch. SOA also enables organizations to deploy new business services faster, and at a lower cost.