The discussion of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is nothing new in the IT Industry. However, due to the emergence of web services you hear more organizations discussing how to transform to SOA. As I mentioned in my first blog, the challenges for IT organizations are becoming more complex. We must face issues like distributed software, varying protocols, the maturation of the Internet, etc. Corporations are looking for ways to better equip themselves for change. IT organizations need to respond quickly to new requirements of the business and constantly seek ways to reduces IT costs in the process. SOA, along with web services, provides a solution to these challenges.

SOA is an architecture assembled from reusable components that stress interoperability and location transparency. There are many technical and business values for transforming to SOA, notably a dramatic reduction in the cost of maintaining rapidly changing IT systems, accelerating deployment of new application functionality, through the reuse of services and enabling incremental deployment options, avoiding costly and risky ?big bang? implementations.

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