Companies across many industries view IT infrastructure as a source of competitive advantage. To maintain an edge, they must quickly adapt business applications to respond to customer needs and market changes. This introduces a challenge for development teams: building applications that are powerful enough to deliver competitive differentiation, yet flexible enough to evolve with rapidly changing business requirements.

To keep pace with the speed of technological evolution, many companies are turning to service-oriented architectures (SOA) for their development needs. This approach entails creating and assembling discrete business functionality known as "services" into flexible, composite applications.

The benefits of a SOA approach to application development are many, including agility, maintainability and efficient development. However, most companies can't afford to rewrite their current IT infrastructure, including valuable business logic written in C++, in order to reap the benefits of service-oriented design.

In this paper, we'll review the benefits of SOA and explore how Rogue Wave Software helps companies get the best of both worlds by re-using valuable C++ business logic to create new, service-oriented applications.