Today's IT environments are increasingly characterized by heterogeneous and
complex applications, tight schedules, budgetary constraints, and an
ever-changing landscape of business requirements.
Few businesses have been agile enough to enhance their existing
infrastructures to meet and overcome these challenges in an effective manner.
Even so, to deal with a continuous flow of highly complex and dynamic set of
business requirements rapidly and cost effectively, businesses need a
flexible and dynamic approach to automate, build, and manage critical
business processes. Solution ApproachService-oriented architecture (SOA) is
often touted as a feasible solution approach to solving the business
challenges mentioned above. SOA is a method of conceptualizing, designing,
and building applications by using and assembling building blocks, each of
which is usually represented... (more)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a key strategy for IT and
line-of-business executives to jointly enhance business performance and
agility in today's intense corporate climate. Using the SOA methodology,
business applications are built as an assembly of loosely coupled pieces of
business functionality, commonly referred to as services. These services are
published, consumed, and combined with other applications over a shared
services network, which is often highly distributed within and across
enterprise boundaries.
Service-oriented development of distributed a... (more)