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What exactly is SOA?
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Bringing IT and business into closer alignment is the concern of every enterprise; more so large enterprises who operate in a highly competitive business environment and, therefore, are constantly looking to ways and means of becoming more agile.
Reduced application maintenance, greater flexibility in IT infrastructure, and reuse of existing technology to more closely align IT with business goals are some of the key long term benefits held out by vendors and evangelists for Service Oriented Architecture, SOA for short, one of industry's latest buzzwords. But if you look for reliable information on the tangible benefits that organizations have derived in the wake of adopting SOA, you might end up with a somewhat confusing picture. There are literally dozens of surveys and reports that speak about how adoption of SOA is fast gaining ground among corporations, particularly the larger enterprises, and the mind-boiling sums that are being invested in it. Gartner, for instance, predicts that by 2008, more than 60% of enterprises will use SOA as a 'guiding principle' when creating mission-critical applications and processes. But, equally, you wouldn't be hard put to find others that paint an opposite picture - that for every successful SOA implementation, there seems to be 10 that fall short of the desired benefits.
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Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007
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