How long does SOA take?
SOA is a journey and SOAs don’t happen overnight; creating a service-oriented architecture is a journey of business-driven steps that gradually transform the enterprise’s IT architecture. Like the Internet, SOA is based on industry standards, not vendor preferences. As a result, services can run on any system—open or proprietary, compatible or not. You don’t need to buy new applications or hardware. You don’t need to throw out what you already have. SOA orients your IT architecture around those services so you can build, combine and modify them faster and more easily. The various applications can share data, communicate and coordinate activity. With a traditional IT architecture, whenever a new need arises, you implement another IT solution. Business need? Build a new system. Update the need? Build another system. The result is a collection of applications that replicate the same steps over and over, but are executed in different ways across separate systems. Enter SOA. Despite the tec
