The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model is being adopted by a huge number of organisations with the ultimate promise of saving costs, while improving operability, flexibility and functionality.
Gartner now predicts that by 2008, more than 60 per cent of enterprises will use SOA as a ‘guiding principle’ when creating mission-critical applications and processes. It really is a growing market and as such, opens up considerable new revenue drivers for resellers.
Put simply, rather than creating one large program, in SOAs applications are built from many smaller ‘services’, which communicate with each other to achieve the desired result.
