Leverage existing information assets with an SOA strategy to achieve benefits rapidly and safely.
Written by Eden Watt
Editor's Note: This article introduces "Keeping Your System i Applications Relevant in a Service-Oriented World," a free white paper that you can download from the MC White Paper Center.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) encompasses design principles like modularization, encapsulation, standards, reusability, and distributed computing. At every step in the history of software, we've been moving steadily forward to achieve these ideals.