Infravio, Inc., a leading provider of SOA Web Services Management products, today announced the availability of the white paper, "Intentional SOA for Real-World SOA Builders."
With the emergence of robust Web Services standards, expensive and customized point-to-point integration has become a thing of the past. Organizations are increasingly turning to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), in order to reduce integration cost, increase asset reuse, increase business agility, and reduce business risk. Some organizations are looking to SOA for policy management for compliance and corporate governance initiatives. This paper describes architectural insights and key standards used in building out an SOA, including SOA design-time and runtime components.
The design of Web Services applications is distinct from the design of an SOA. While Web Services development is iterative and organizations can enable their applications one at a time, organizations need to deliberately design their SOA from an architectural perspective, in order to reach the broader benefits of SOA. Ad hoc collections of services strung together as a set of point solutions go back to the same problems SOA was created to address -- they create expensive, customized, IT-intensive point solutions with no hope of reuse and no coherent platform from which to build composite applications.
