This SOA paper discusses the benefits of SOA as an architectural principle that opens the door to using IT technology in new ways to help improve efficiency and productivity. Along with an enterprise architecture – the intellectual component of an SOA – organizations can approach SOA as a new way to enable architecture instead of another new technology to move data. Serving as a platform for benefiting from the value proposition of SOA, enterprise architecture helps organizations avoid the trap of formalizing old ways of doing things using new technology, ensuring SOA delivers on its benefits of reconfigurability and agility.
Integrating Business Architecture with Other Enterprise Frameworks
A robust Business Architecture practice does not exist in isolation. While Business Architecture focuses on the structural foundation—the capabilities, value streams, and organizational design—many organizations also leverage other frameworks such as Enterprise...


















