Service Oriented Architecture

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Service Oriented Architecture

• By Jon Harris, Joey MacSween, Helen Wigmore and
  Chris Davies

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SOA Overview

• SOA Technical Overview
• Impacts and Applications
• Development and Future Impact of SOA
• Case Study

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Service Oriented Architecture

• In computing, service-oriented architecture
  (SOA)
• provides methods for systems development and
• integration where systems group functionality
  around
• business processes and package these as
• interoperable services.

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SOA Impacts

• Benefits
• Agility
• Flexibility
• Transparency 
• Openness
• Comprehensibility
• Streamlined Costs
• Shorter development times 
• Reduced duplication
• Lower cost of support and maintenance

• Disadvantages
• SOA governance
• Importance of testing
• Interoperability
• Lack of skilled SOA architects

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SOA Applications

• Greater collaboration between business
  departments and processes
• Supply chain management
• Finance credit records and retrieval
• New relationship opportunities in B2B

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Development and Future Impact of SOA

• WOA- Web Oriented Architecture
• Uses web-based applications (HTTP)
• Easier to understand and utilize
• Better support
• SOA and WOA will likely become one in the same

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SOA Case Study

• Route-One
• Ford
• GM
• Toyota
• Daimler Chrysler

www.routeone.com