While SOA has enabled IT organizations to make great strides in business process efficiencies, many still experience inhibited business flexibility. Because of this, the goal of IT has become increasingly focused on keeping the efficiencies afforded by existing IT infrastructures while enabling business processes to both be integrated from start to finish, and enable rapid change. Organizations that are unable to do this lack the flexibility necessary to respond in a quick and meaningful way to a changing competitive environment.

This eBook provides an in-depth overview of SOA, its implementation and common service-oriented application development practices. Discover how to effectively adopt an SOA, develop services and implement applications to be deployed into the SOA environment. Learn how to improve your business process efficiency and flexibility by overcoming common SOA challenges, including:

• SOA Entry Points
• Service Lifecycle Management
• SOA Governance