Why is SOA Important for Education?
Educational Organizations are interested in services oriented architecture because it promises to reduce the complexity of integrating systems while at the same time aligning the enterprise business processes with the underlying technology used to deliver those processes. However, the lack of a common blueprint for SOA is preventing many Education Institutions from adopting the practice. It is a matter of fact that the typical Education Institutions must provide enterprise services to an ecosystem of many different people: administrators, librarians, professors, assistants, students, local and global communities, researchers, security and maintenance personnel. Because of the varying needs of this ecosystem, most institutions find themselves forced to manage a complex heterogeneous environment comprised of new and legacy IT systems. Each IT system may require a different server, operating system, messaging platform, database, and application. Data must be shared among these systems to
