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Why SOA?


To be successful, your organization must become increasingly more flexible. That means your underlying IT infrastructure must keep pace with today’s quickly changing business dynamics. To achieve that agility, companies like yours are adopting service-oriented architecture.

SOA supports the delivery of IT as a service. It enables your business processes to drive the definition, creation and execution of services that can be shared and reused across your enterprise. SOA shifts the way you think about traditional IT architecture. It brings an end to monolithic, rigid application architectures and the high maintenance costs associated with them.

An SOA can help your organization:

  • Enhance business agility
  • Synchronize IT with your business
  • Break the barriers between business units and business partners
  • Lower the cost of maintaining IT systems
  • Focus your resources on innovation rather than maintenance
  • Speed delivery of web services to meet business demands
  • Provide support for IT process automation
  • Protect IT investments by building on your existing infrastructure

Questions?

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»  HP SOA Competency Centers (176kb, pdf)
»  BTO for SOA Overview (Flash)
»  HP SOA Maturity Self-Assessment Tool
»  SOA on HP NonStop servers

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Learn more

»  HP SOA Software
»  New! Online SOA discussion forum
»  HP SOA Services
»  HP SOA Training
»  SOA Governance
»  HP SOA Systinet Flash demo
»  SOA Governance Best Practices
»  SOA Management (pdf, 205 KB)
»  Software Quality Management for SOA (pdf, 325 KB)

»  More SOA resources

Featured news & articles

»  New version of HP SOA Systinet enables 300% ROI
»  HP Extends SOA Quality and Management Software
»  HP positioned in Gartner Leaders Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance

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Events & webcasts

»  Achieving the promised business outcomes of SOA (webinar, 21:08)

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Featured customers

»  McKesson Saves Time and Cost through SOA Quality (video: 5:30)
»  Carphone Warehouse Masters SOA Governance (video: 3:15)
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