Service oriented architecture (SOA)

Make your existing infrastructure do more for your business, with service oriented architecture (SOA). Using SOA, IT applications that support business processes are restructured into reusable building blocks or 'services', which can be combined, configured, and reused to rapidly meet changing business needs in innovative, cost-effective ways.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that guides all aspects of creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle, as well as defining and provisioning the IT infrastructure that allows different applications to exchange data and participate in business processes regardless of the operating systems or programming languages underlying those applications.SOA represents a model in which functionality is decomposed into small, distinct units (services), which can be distributed over a network and can be combined together and reused to create business applications.