General SOA Information

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. SOA helps users build composite applications, which are applications that draw upon functionality from multiple sources within and beyond the enterprise to support horizontal business processes.

Links and Resources

Research

• CBDI Report
  Business Flexibility Through SOA
• MWD
  Application Delivery and SOA: A Lifecycle Approach
• AMR Research
  Service-Oriented Architectures: Survey Findings on Deployment and Plans for the Future by Eric Austvold and Karen Carter
  Defining Your SAP Relationship: Strategic or Tactical? by Derek Prior
  CIO Dilemma, Part 1: Harvest Value of SAP R/3 or Upgrade to mySAP ERP? by Colin Masson, Shawn Fitzgerald (February 08, 2005)
  The CIO's Dilemma, Part 2: The Unexpected mySAP Relicensing Barrier by Colin Masson, Derek Prior (April 12, 2005)
• CBDI Report
  Service Oriented Architecture: An Introduction for Managers

• Who governs the ERP world? SOA versus ERP
• Visualizing the execution of Web Services
• Enterprise SAPping
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services

• Hurwitz Associates - SOA Governance: Maximizing Reuse and Flexibility of IT Resources through SOA

• Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap by Norbert Bieberstein, Sanjay Bose, Marc Fiammante, Keith Jones, Rawn Shah (IBM Press)
• The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0

• SOA as a Modernization Strategy, Hosted by Dale Kutnick, Gartner Sr. Vice President and Former CEO of META
• Podcast - MarketWatch interview with Don Ferguson (Part 1)
• developerWorks series on Making SOA real with WebSphere

• IBM developerWorks Software Evaluation Kit: Developing SOA applications

• Resources on how SOA can extend Oracle apps
• What is SOA, What its Not
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM