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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

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»  E-mail HP SOA
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»  HP SOA Competency Centers (176kb, pdf)
»  BTO for SOA Overview (Flash)
»  HP SOA Maturity Self-Assessment Tool
»  Optimize the business outcome of SOA-- Business white paper (432kb, pdf)
»  SOA on HP NonStop servers

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Learn more

»  New! Online SOA discussion forum
»  HP SOA Services
»  HP SOA Training
»  Setting the criteria for SOA governance
»  HP SOA Software
»  SOA Service briefs
»  SOA Management (pdf, 205 KB)
»  Software Quality Management for SOA (pdf, 325 KB)
»  The Three Steps to Successful SOA (video, 16:14)
»  Optimize SOA: governance, quality, and management (380kb, pdf)
»  HP SOA Systinet
»  Assessing your SOA Program white paper (952kb, pdf)

»  More SOA resources

Events & webcasts

»  Replay: SOA & Web 2.0 Takes IT from Zeroes to Heroes
»  Replay: Introducing a New Vision for SOA Governance
»  Deploying a Center of Excellence to Drive Success in SOA Governance: audio recording

»  SOA events archive

Featured news & articles

»  HP Extends Quality and Management Software to Meet New Requirements for Mainstream SOA Adoption
»  Setting the criteria for SOA governance
»  HP SOA Systinet 2.52: Best SOA governance product
»  SOA testing 1…2…3: Reduce business risk, improve performance
»  HP positioned in Gartner Leaders Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance
»  Rate your maturity with new online self-assessment tool 

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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)
»  Helvetia & HP Services: Insuring Success (video: 3:55)
»  Helvetia Patria
»  Anoka-Hennepin School District
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