BEA's SOA Reference Architecture - A Foundation for Business Agility

03/05/2008

To reap the business benefits of SOA, enterprises need a set of conceptual blueprints and guiding principles. An SOA Reference Architecture provides this critical foundation. It offers an architectural framework for planning SOA-based projects that maximize interoperability and reuse. It defines a consistent vision of SOA throughout the enterprise. It supplies the context for imposing best practices on development and deployment. It represents IT's architectural alignment with the business objectives for SOA and thus helps drives decisions associated with the implementation of SOA, including infrastructure requirements and investment priorities. With an appropriate SOA Reference Architecture, enterprises can manage the expansion of SOA within their organizations from pilot projects and grassroots efforts to comprehensive adoption.

BEA has refined a proven SOA Reference Architecture based on years of working with leading enterprise customers to deploy SOA. Gradually, lessons learned with customers diffused into BEA's general consulting practice. The clear success that came from leveraging these lessons led to the creation of a formal SOA Reference Architecture within BEA. Today, this SOA Reference Architecture guides both product development and customer implementations.

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