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Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Categories: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Career as a Business Systems Analyst

We've all come to realize that SOA makes a lot of sense.

It also makes a lot of promises, some more genuine than others, but perhaps the most fundamental promise SOA has made is empowerment of the business user. As the story goes, SOA transforms application development from a complex and mysterious black art—the likes of which most understand little about—to a relatively nontechnical process that the rest of us can get our heads around. The conventional argument says that this shift from coding to composition makes organizations more agile and adaptive by decentralizing application development and putting the power in the hands of the lines of business. After all, an application is no better than its requirements—and who understands requirements better than those who experience the pain and live with the need? 

Author: Jake Sorofman

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Jake,
Can any Product/Solution based organization follow SOA approach in their Product/Solution development? If Yes, then what factors are necessary by the organization to be considered for this shift?

posted @ Monday, September 20, 2010 5:36 AM by sikharavish


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