The IBM® SOA Sandbox lets you increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience with the IBM SOA entry points. These SOA entry points -- people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity -- are based upon real customer experiences and provide a simple way to get started with SOA. The SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone.
The IBM SOA Sandbox provides a mix of full-version software trials and "try online" hosted environments where you can explore tutorials and get architectural guidance. You'll also find online demos, best practice documentation, and quick-start guides, all integrated into a low-risk, hands-on format that provides practical applications of SOA entry points to accelerate learning.
The five entry points you can explore through the sandbox are:
Reuse: Save time and money by extending existing services. You reduce duplication of functionality and get to take advantage of proven applications your teams and customers are most familiar with.
Connectivity: Integrate your people, processes, and information into a flexible infrastructure. This flexibility lets you connect equally to existing business process or to external partners outside your firewall in a secure way.
People: Improve the user experience to drive innovation and greater collaboration, which enables consistent human and process interaction, thus improving business productivity.
Information: Leverage information in a consistent and visible way. Gain control over your information by aligning it with your business processes to discover how to derive value from within.
In addition to the SOA Sandbox, SOA Configurations provide trusted solutions and expert guidance to address common SOA challenges. Visit the SOA Configurations information center to find out more.
You'll find more information about each entry point in the IBM SOA Sandbox information center, which contains tutorials, demos, technical white papers, technical presentations, and hands-on exercises.
The IBM® SOA Sandbox lets you increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience with the IBM SOA entry points. These SOA entry points -- people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity -- are based upon real customer experiences and provide a simple way to get started with SOA. The SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone. 
