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Enabling SOA Through Organizational Change and Governance

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Overview Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models. However, in order to realize these benefits, organizations are finding it takes more than developing the technology infrastructure, processes and tools. SOA enablement is a major transformation for many organizations, requiring effective governance and organizational change.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Service-Oriented Architecture

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