Day by day, company by company, IT organization by IT organization, today's
enterprise is busy architecting for business-solution agility and the
alignment of key assets around the emerging service-oriented architecture
(SOA) umbrella. The ability to embrace SOA leads to the ability to rapidly
capitalize on future IT investments and leverage existing technologies both
inside and outside of your organization. Many organizations will struggle as
they seek to identify, implement, and build on their first SOA forays into
the new environment. This is unfortunate, because a number of best practices
and lessons learned can be applied from the past and the growing SOA
experience from technology providers and practitioners. As organizations work
to extend IT capabilities utilizi... (more)