What you need to know about service oriented architecture

Service oriented architecture is a principle that allows businesses to manage their IT and business transformation in order to give themselves a competitive edge. It offers benefits including insight into the running of the entire business, seamless integration of systems and the cloud, and linking of front and back office systems. The World Wide Web Consortium defines SOA as "A set of components which can be invoked, and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered". CBDI defines it in more detail as "[the] policies, practices, frameworks that enable application functionality to be provided and consumed as sets of services… [Continue Reading]