Planning and Implementing SOA
Technology Management and Strategy Reports
Mark Blowers, Mike Thompson, Rob Hailstone, Teresa Jones, Tim Jennings - Published 20/12/2006
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is destined to be one of the defining IT paradigms of the next decade. It promises the delivery of IT services in a loosely-coupled way that is more flexible and better aligned with business needs than previous architectures. SOA is an architectural style, not a technology, which allows the creation and maintenance of an IT architecture that supports business services and business processes, and also rapidly adapts to the changes within them.
