Agility by Design 

It’s crucial for a business to be well informed when considering which system architecture to implement.  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has come to the forefront of IT architectures because the Internet makes it easier than ever before to connect to and subscribe to services.  In that regard, SOA makes alluring promises of easier integration and enhanced ability to change business processes.  Even before reaching those possibilities, however, the move to SOA raises the age old conflicts between stability and flexibility, between technology choices and business choices, and between best-of-breed and all-in-one applications.  Increasingly, IT professionals have been looking towards SOA as a method to integrate their disparate applications and manage change.  The “plug and play” capabilities of SOA have a lot of potential, but an SOA is complicated and not appropriate for all environments. >>MORE