SOA–Friend or Foe?

A cautious approach to service-oriented architectures can reap rewards and limit risk.

Many of our recent conversations with CIOs brought up the subject of service-oriented architectures (SOA). Since one should never ignore IEAs (Important Emerging Acronyms), we decided to share our views publicly and hopefully aid CIOs in thinking through the implications of SOAs for their businesses.

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