Wikipedia says: "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural design pattern that concerns itself with defining loosely-coupled relationships between producers and consumers. While it has no direct relationship with software, programming, or technology, it's often confused with an evolution of distributed computing and modular programming. There is no widely agreed upon definition of SOA other than its literal translation. It is an architecture that relies on service-orientation as its fundamental design principle. In an SOA environment independent services can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation. These concepts can be applied to business, software and other types of producer/consumer systems.
Service Oriented Architecture ideology has been around for a time and many folks have implemented it in some form. I happen to believe that our Org. is currently positioned to benefit from it if we take the steps necessary to implement SOA.
Although SOA is typically discussed in terms of Software Development, it is NOT just a development tool. There are many other applications for SOA within a business. If your not familiar with SOA I would encourage you to do a little research on the topic. I'm dropping a slight hint here....there'll be more formal discussions on this topic in the future...and I'll be extremely interested in hearing your prospective and if you think there's an application for us.
TAFN
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