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SOA, why bother?

SOA has been the flavour of the month for at least the last four years.

01 November 2007

Now it`s starting to take to the air as organisations get on board, but there`s still some uncertainty.

Service oriented architecture (SOA) has been on many vendors` lips since at least 2003. It is only now beginning to really take off, but many organisations are still undecided as to whether or not it is worth all the effort.

Research firm Gartner says that “successfully growing a service oriented architecture can be extremely challenging, but the reward is greater business agility. You`ll also benefit from better resource utilisation and lower maintenance costs in the longer term.”

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