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Building new revenue streams based on service-oriented architectures (SOA) can be challenging. Not only do you have your typical, environment-specific planning issues to consider, but, generally speaking, the concept of service-oriented architectures is a tricky one to explain to anyone who doesn't have a degree in Web services. This SOA tutorial walks you through some basic SOA terminology and functionality -- to answer the common question, "What is SOA?" It also offers key points to keep in mind when presenting a SOA plan to a customer, and touches on some adoption obstacles to avoid. SOA can bring tangible benefits to your customers, and ultimately your channel business, but only if you're all on the same page.
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Q&A: Why service providers need to pay attention to SOA
Service providers might be a little overwhelmed by service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, but it's time to go beyond the confusion and learn how you can increase ROI with SOA. It is a means to an end, says Robert Schneider, an independent SOA consultant, instructor and published IT author with more than 15 years of experience leading successful IT initiatives. In this Q&A, he offers ample reason to get behind it.. -
Ensuring data standardization in SOA using Service Data Objects
Service Data Objects eases the task of standardizing data among Web service components in a SOA implementation. Find out why it beats out XSLT and what benefits it can bring you and your customers. -
Podcast: What is SOA?
Download this 10-minute podcast for an overview of service-oriented architectures. -
Realizing tangible benefit from SOA in the near term
This introduction to SOA clarifies some basic terms and offers a high-level look at how you can help a customer begin to see benefits. -
SOA demystified for businesspeople
The technical language of service-oriented architectures can cause communication problems between IT and business people. One consultant helps to demystify SOA. -
Defining SOA governance
Should you be looking into offering SOA solutions and services now or later? One SOA Link member (and vendor) offers his take on the state of the market. -
SOA technology changes the integration game
Companies are saving time, labor and money by using technologies that expose legacy application functions as Web services in SOA. -
Gartner analyst reveals SOA secret
At a Gartner Summit, a distinguished analyst let the secret out: SOA began with client/server circa 1996. -
The top five SOA adoption pitfalls
If you want to make an SOA all go wrong, here's five excellent ways to do it. -
Mainframe SOA: Interest high, adoption low
Users at a Share mainframe conference were interested in SOA, but not implementing it in their data centers yet. -
SOA begins with application rationalization
A new Burton Group report advocates cutting down on application bloat as a first step toward implementing SOA projects. -
New SOA spec looks to define hardware resources
Service Modeling Language is designed to describe and model the hardware resources available to a given Web service inside an SOA. - SOA
and BPM: A mutually beneficial partnership
SOA and BPM offer similar business benefits, but how can these two work in harmony? This article explains.
This was first published in April 2008