Benefits of SOA

SOA has quickly captured the imagination of the business world because SOA's technical characteristics translate directly into real bottom-line benefits such as:

• Increases organizational agility; allows companies to easily assemble, and modify business processes in response to market requirements.
• Provides a competitive advantage by offering greater flexibility in the way computer systems can be used to support the business.
• Lowers implementation costs by increasing reusability; services can easily be shared across multiple applications.
• Increases IT adaptability; changes — resulting from mergers, acquisitions, package application implementations, etc. - are easily integrated.
• Allows existing investment in IT assets to be leveraged.
• Lowers risk and development effort; avoids the need to rewrite and test existing applications.
• Delivers economies of scale; same technology can be applied to address a broad range of business problems.
• Reduces complexity and fragmentation resulting from use of proprietary technologies.
• Lowers training requirements; increases available labor pool.