Why Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Quick View

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By tradition, information systems in businesses have been developed or being developed with a functional direction which often times result in silos of information.

Irrespective of the line of business or sector an organization is in, once the number of systems and application increases, the organization will have challenges such as integration, upgrades, and maintaining existing systems making it a nightmare for the administrators.

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When an organization decides to put together a change to their existing monolithic/functional oriented architecture and implement Service Oriented Architecture, the following benefits can be achieved:

• Business Agility - Business agility is achieved when enabling reusability of software and services. This makes businesses more agile and creates an opportunity to innovate while meeting customer demands.
• Cost Reduction - This can be achieved when point-to-point integration has been eliminated, enabling business functions from existing assets as services can be reused and existing legacy application can be maintained easily. This will reduce the amount of time and cost for development and maintenance of new and existing applications and services.
• Simpler system - With the use of SOA, the infrastructure is much simpler which makes ripping and replacing an easier process. The implementation of SOA reduces the integration and development time as well as the complexity in the environment.

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