Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Benefits of SOA (Page 3 of 5 )
Architecturally, the modern enterprise architecture design could involve:
- Service Oriented
- Event-Driven
- Loosely coupled
- Aligned with life cycle support processes
- Able to support assembly and integration
- Able to leverage existing applications and infrastructure
SOAs offer the following advantages over traditional approaches to distributed computing:
- They offer business services across the platforms
- They provide location independence
- Services need not be at a particular system or particular network
- Completely loosely coupled approach
- Authentication and authorization support at every level
- The search and connectivity to other services is dynamic
Short-term benefits of implementation:
- Enhances reliability
- Reduces hardware acquisition costs
- Leverages existing development skills
- Accelerates movement to standards-based server and application consolidation
- Provides a data bridge between incompatible technologies
Long-term benefits of implementation:
- Provides the ability to build composite applications
- Creates a self-healing infrastructure that reduces management costs
- Provides truly real-time decision-making applications
- Enables the compilation of a unified taxonomy of information across an enterprise and its customer and partners
Benefits from the perspective of Business Value
- Ability to more quickly meet customer demands
- Lower costs associated with the acquisition and maintenance of technology
- Management of business functionality closer to the business units
- Leverages existing investments in technology
- Reduces reliance on expensive custom development
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