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Built for Innovation. Unlock the power of SOA. Read more.
Built for Innovation. Unlock the power of SOA. Read more.
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SOA for Innovation SOA for innovation

Business leaders face relentless pressure to innovate—from the products and services they make to the business models they deploy to make them. But businesses are only as flexible and responsive as the IT systems that support them.

Service Oriented Architecture breaks IT into flexible "services" that can be combined, configured and reused to address changing business priorities. SOA delivers a flexible IT foundation that enables the enterprise to adapt with speed. Accelerate change with SOA.

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Resources for your SOA initiative
Getting started
SOA solutions SOA solutions (PDF, 1237KB)
To support your business objectives
Ready. Set. Now what? Ready. Set. Now what?
Start with the SOA Self Assessment Tool
Case studies
Xerox flexes infrastructure Xerox flexes infrastructure
Xerox reduces duplication of customizing code
DaimlerChrysler makes a right turn DaimlerChrysler makes a right turn
IBM drives transformation from reactive to proactive infrastructure
SOA entry points
People People
Enabling human and process interaction with consistent levels of service
Process Process
Achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness with business model innovation
Information Information
Provide business insight and enable innovation
Reuse & connectivity Reuse & connectivity
Business-centric SOA for flexible, service-based business applications
SOA governance SOA governance
Managing your SOA infrastructure
SOA security and management SOA security and management
Manage and secure the SOA infrastructure and applications
Get flexible. Get SOA. Get flexible. Get SOA.
Service-oriented architecture drives innovation—and results
The A-Z of SOA The A-Z of SOA
Put it to work across your enterprise
Ready for SOA?

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Take the IBM service oriented architecture assessment

IBM SOA Assessment


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Industry at large
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A real solution for a real business
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"Five SOA Projects that offer payback in 6 months"
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IBM Systems Journal, SOA Edition
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"Freedom to Innovate: Unlock the power of SOA with WebSphere"
Within IBM
Meet the experts
The IBM SOA Executive Summit
Get the experts' take
Read reports from today's industry leaders
Listen to the podcast
WebSphere Technical Podcast series