Enterprise SOA from a Business Perspective

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Companies face incredible pressure in global markets, in effort to survive companies must develop a competitive edge that will help sustain innovative business and empower information workers. Enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) allows a business to quickly build and modify processes that will thrive in the every changing market.
Enterprise SOA unleashes the untapped potential of existing business processes within and across company boundaries, making for better fit competition. Executing and deploying business strategies fast are essential in order for a company to satisfy performance goals.

Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture is a business-driven software architecture that allows you to share and reuse services within your company and with strategic partners. With enterprise SOA:

Business functionality is represented through reusable enterprise services
You can compose new business processes for business innovation
You can quickly modify business processes to achieve operational excellence
You can automate processes to empower information workers

IT professionals are taking on new roles as enterprise SOA finds a place in companies:

Enterprise architects implement enterprise SOA, enabling business flexibility. They have a broad organizational perspective that involves technical activities and other responsibilities that are more strategic and more like those of a consultant
Business process experts compose, adapt, and deploy business processes by adapting and executing composition software tools and enterprise services

On the way to SOA Using Business Processesas a Guideline
Successful implementation of SOA requires Business Process Management as well as proper orchestration.

The Key to a Customer Centric Enterprise
Companies needs differ when it comes to customer relationship management (CRM). Even divisions within the same organization face disparate CRM challenges. Some need a quick fix for a single issue, others seeks a CRM solution that can tackle multiple customer-facing processes.

Service Oriented Architecture and Specialized Messaging Patterns
SOA is an architectural paradigm and discipline that may be used to build infrastructures enabling consumer needs and providers' capabilities.

Are You Really Ready for SOA?
Most major organizations claim to have a service-oriented architecture (SOA) plan. Not to have one would be old-fashioned. But before you design a modern IT architecture, you have to understand your business model.