The Brookfield Group November 2007
This month: Service-Oriented Architecture - Maximizing your business potential
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SOA: The Benefits and Challenges of Shared, Reusable Services
While the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been around for quite some time, the recent popularity of Web 2.0 and XML have begun to put SOA back in the spotlight, and may even have the potential to garner it a position in the mainstream of business processes. Until recently, adopting or even defining SOA has been a challenge for businesses – not to mention the increased security risks, network degradation and other factors. However, rapid advancements in Web services have prompted a renewed interest in SOA and its potential to reduce long-term IT costs, increase flexibility and enable software and service reusability.
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