Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – a flexible set of software design principles representing the functionality as a suite of interoperable services.

Business Benefits

• Agility – respond quickly to new business challenges by developing distinctive new capabilities and leverage existing resources
• Cost reduction – reuse of existing assets, increasing efficiency and reducing development costs
• Boosting ROI – Increased productivity, higher performance, closer to the business and Leverage of existing IT infrastructure and applications

IT Benefits

• Simpler design
• Lower integration cost
• Enhanced architecture flexibility
• Lower maintenance cost

With SOA Business and IT are more closely aligned.