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	August 18, 2008 Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Architects by Randy Heffner with Larry Fulton, Gene Leganza	Average: 9  (2 ratings)

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Executive Summary

Most architects now recognize that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is much more than Web services (WS) standards and better application integration. SOA continues to gain industry recognition as a key element of strategic business transformation — which is a much higher level of business impact than mere application integration. Strategic SOA-based business services increase both business and application flexibility, providing a modular, digital-world implementation of your business that is ready to connect to any customer, employee, supplier, or partner wherever and whenever. Web services add value to SOA by providing a standards-based ecosystem and open access via loose technology coupling. For architects to lead their organizations on a successful SOA journey, they must understand SOA's overarching concepts, its relationship to business design, and its impact on governance, technology platforms, solution delivery life cycles, and architecture management.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Why SOA Matters
• Forrester's Take On SOA
• SOA Basics For Enterprise Architects
• Strategic Perspectives On SOA
• Architecture Concepts And Strategies
• Best Practices
• Trends And Forecasts
• SOA Infrastructure And Platform Design
• Vendor And Product Comparisons
• Related Topics
• Upcoming Research
• For More Information
• Related Research Documents

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