Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among diverse interacting software applications, enabling organizations to take advantage of existing investments in applications and systems.
SOA facilitates the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, thus creating a flexible and adaptable infrastructure.
Using a SOA approach, an organization can focus more resources and budget on innovation and on delivering new business services.
Systems that can successfully use SOA can minimize the disruption of planned or unplanned outages in an enterprise.
Some of the advantages of using SOA are:
SOA facilitates the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, thus creating a flexible and adaptable infrastructure.
Using a SOA approach, an organization can focus more resources and budget on innovation and on delivering new business services.
Systems that can successfully use SOA can minimize the disruption of planned or unplanned outages in an enterprise.
Some of the advantages of using SOA are:
- Reduction in development time and cost: SOA services are easily reused and can be rapidly assembled into new, composite applications.
- Lower maintenance cost: Reusable services reduce the number and internal complexity of enterprise services.
- High-quality services: Increased service reuse creates high-quality services through multiple testing cycles from different service consumers.
- Lower integration costs: Standardized services know how to work together, enabling disparate applications to quickly and easily connect.
- Reduce risk:Fewer, reusable services provide greater control over corporate and IT governance policies, and reduce the overall compliance risk to an enterprise.
