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Service Oriented Architecture from IBM: the Smart SOA™ approach

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. With the Smart SOA approach, you can find value at every stage of the SOA continuum, from departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives.

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Stages of Smart SOA adoption

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SOA Entry Points

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Process integrity enables reliable business activity in a secure, scalable SOA environment.

SOA governance can help you make better IT decisions.

Business Process Management enabled by SOA provides greater business flexibility through accelerated and iterative process improvement.

SOA management and security can help enable visibility to monitor and control SOA based services and applications.

Extend SOA with Web 2.0 to reach new people and markets.

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SOA Healthchecks
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SOA Business Catalog
Downloadable assets

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The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0

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SOA Newsletter
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SOA Video on Demand

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SOA on your terms

CIOs
SOA resources and information.

Business Managers
Lead your industry with innovation through SOA.

IT Professionals
Simplify complex environments with service oriented architecture.

IT Architects
SOA Architect Summits set the stage for your service oriented architecture planning.

Business Partners
Find out more about the SOA Partner Program!

Small and Medium Businesses
IBM solutions let you reap SOA benefits at your own pace.

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SOA News

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Featured white papers

IDC white paper: Evolving SOA with IBM WebSphere (247KB)

Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architecture (1.04MB)

Realizing business value from a service-oriented architecture in a multivendor world (181KB)

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Application Server Feature Packs for SOA

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IBM SOA Community

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SOA and Web Services Forums

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