Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a design concept that gives a business tremendous efficiency advantages because it enables them to improve interoperability and information exchange across applications. As a result, your organization can respond and adapt to changing conditions more quickly and cost-effectively, while leveraging your current infrastructure investment.
SOA allows you to implement new services or upgrade existing ones easily, because the service interface is independent of the implementation. The ability to modularize functions and simplify deployment of heterogeneous new technologies across systems and application infrastructure enables you to address new business requirements without having to build anything from scratch.
Rapid adoption of SOA is resulting in extensive service enabling of IT systems. However, this is only half the story—the only way to achieve IT goals of lower costs, greater efficiency, and increased visibility is through rapidly assembling these services into modular and flexible business applications.
Oracle's SOA and BPM products are the foundation for Oracle Application Integration Architecture: Oracle's solution for delivering rapid application integrations.
Oracle's SOA delivers:
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is an integrated, best-of-breed suite of products that helps you rapidly design and assemble, deploy and manage highly agile and adaptable business applications. This 100 percent standards-based, hot-pluggable infrastructure interoperates with your existing IT investments which lowers your upfront costs. Many Oracle customers have succeeded in deploying high-volume, mission-critical SOA systems by leveraging the industry's best service bus, Oracle Service Bus, combined with Oracle's renowned extreme-scalability on a grid computing infrastructure.
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