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Balancing Act: Choosing a SOA Platform that Fits Near-Term Business Need and Long-Term Strategy

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Overview The trend is undeniable--after years of struggling to rationalize and integrate myriad disparate applications, Global 2000 enterprises are overwhelmingly headed toward adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)--a software architecture that defines the use of loosely coupled software services to support the changing requirements of business processes. In a SOA environment, resources on a network are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying implementation.

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Publisher	Vitria Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Service Level Management, Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture

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