What is service-oriented architecture (SOA) and why is it important?
Enterprises are looking to eliminate application stovepipes, where applications are ‘hardwired’ to underlying platforms and data sources and little code or business logic is reusable. SOA enables more flexible and reusable services that may be reconfigured and augmented more swiftly than traditional stovepipe applications. SOA can accelerate time-to-business objective, resulting in better business agility.
