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An excerpt from the BEA Enterprise 360, A Business perspective

SOA: only the beginning
In an attempt to gain vital business agility, many organizations are turning to Service-Oriented Architecture.

In an SOA, complex business applications are componentized into discrete business services. These services run on an internal or external network, where they can be easily shared and reused across different silos and easily combined to create a new breed of business processes and composite applications. The potential for far greater business agility and alignment is enormous, as is the potential for savings and return on investment.

The initial success enjoyed by some early SOA adopters demonstrates the very real potential.That potential, however, cannot be realized by simply building and deploying reusable services. A successful SOA, one capable of quickly achieving and sustaining alignment, agility, and savings, requires an SOA foundation that promotes and supports air-tight collaboration between business and IT. That foundation must combine SOA with Business Process Management (BPM) and the collaborative capabilities of Web 2.0. The powerful chemistry of that combination can transcend business agility to deliver true business velocity.