Book Excerpt: Enabling Agile Business with SOA

Chapter 3: SOA Value Proposition This content is excerpted from Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives (978-0-470-26091-3) with permission from the publisher, John Wiley & Sons. You may not make any other use, or authorize any others to make any other use of this excerpt, in any print or non-print format, including electronic or multimedia. SOA Value Story Ronald Schmelzer, of industry think tank ZapThink, describes four key benefits to SOA.[1] Increasing asset reuse (no need to re-invent the wheel each time) Increasing business agility (the pace of business has changed, but few enterprises have) In the following sections, we will explore and illustrate each of these value propositions. Reducing Integration Expenses “If I had a dollar for every time that upper management asked me to cut costs…” — A CTO who... [read full story]