Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has succeeded in providing agile and flexible infrastructures in very large enterprise organizations and is now finding a new application in small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). SMBs face unique integration challenges since business models are more likely to focus on straightforward business-to-business integration with partners and customers. The only way for SMBs to achieve benefits like their larger counterparts is to move beyond inflexible and costly integration methods to implement loosely coupled Web services for SOA.
