Modernisation: The Path to SOA

Overview

More and more organizations are looking to service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the basis of their future computer architecture.

This white paper looks at the problems of legacy applications that are facing today's organisations, with the aim of answering the following questions:

1) What exactly is SOA, anyway?
2) If I use it, how is it going to help my organisation eliminate cost, increase agility, deal with dwindling legacy skill sets, and address compliance?
3) Given that it has value, how do I get there?

Recognising that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate and maintain, hard to change, and rely on a dwindling set of skills, organisations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.