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Service-Oriented Computing
    Introduction
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Service-Orientation
    Service Compositions
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    A Conceptual View of
Service-Oriented Computing
    A Physical View of
Service-Oriented Computing

Goals and Benefits of
Service-Oriented Computing
    Introduction
    Increased Intrinsic Interoperability
    Increased Federation
    Increased Vendor Diversification Options
    Increased Business and Technology Alignment
    Increased ROI
    Increased
Organizational Agility
    Reduced IT Burden

Service-Oriented Computing
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Reduced IT Burden

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Consistently applying service-orientation results in an IT enterprise with reduced waste and redundancy, reduced size and operational cost, and reduced overhead associated with its governance and evolution. Such an enterprise can benefit an organization through dramatic increases in efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

In essence, the attainment of the previously described goals can create a leaner, more agile IT department; one that is less of a burden on the organization and more of an enabling contributor to its strategic goals.


Figure: If you were to take a typical automated enterprise and redevelop it entirely with custom, normalized services, its overall size would shrink considerably, resulting in a reduced operational scope.
Related Service-Orientation Principles

Standardized Service Contract, Service Loose Coupling, Service Abstraction, Service Reusability, Service Autonomy, Service Statelessness, Service Discoverability, Service Composability

Related SOA Patterns

The strategic goals of service-oriented computing represent a target state that service-orientation provides a method of achieving. The successful application of service-orientation helps shape and define requirements for different types of service-oriented architectures that end up establishing an IT automation model designed to fully support the endless two-way cycle of change through which business and IT communities continually transition. Amidst all of this, all SOA design patterns provide proven design solutions and practices that support (and are supported by) service-orientation.



The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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