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Today most of the conversations surrounding service-oriented architectures (SOAs) focus on flexibility and breaking down applications into services: modular, reusable, componentized, with increased availability to the services as well as increased management of them. However, with these conversations comes the risk of getting sucked into a technology-centric vacuum in which consideration for the real business problems that customers need to solve might be neglected. Undoubtedly there is a huge demand for the development and implementation of SOAs. Gartner predicts that by 2008 more than 60 percent of organizations will use SOA as a "guiding principal" when creating essential applications and processes. With this in mind, and as the spotlight on SOA grows ever brighter ... (more)

The Indispensable SOA

SOA has been aggressively hyped by the IT industry as a technology that can - and does - change the very nature of business. In recent times - as you well know - the Internet was a similar technology - and as with the Internet, we at IBM actually believe the hype to be true. SOA has come on the scene in a big way in the past few years. But hype alone isn't what's causing the huge stir. It... (more)