What are you witnessing interms of agile Innovation lately?

SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. But pursuing SOA on an ad hoc, scattered basis can drastically reduce its benefits.

Fortunately, there is a smarter approach: we can learn from the thousands of clients who have chosen IBM for their SOA deployments. IBM has solidified the best practices and lessons learned from these experiences to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles we call Smart SOA.


Smart SOA
These are the central tenets of Smart SOA:
•  There is a continuum of approaches, from basic to advanced, for pursuing SOA
   projects, allowing an organization to match its efforts to its objectives.

•  All approaches mandate a commitment to simplicity and robustness, regardless of
   how basic or advanced they are.

•  The approaches build on one another in such a manner that doing a basic project is valuable by itself but also lays the  groundwork for more-advanced deployments without having to replace the original investments.

•  Any approach needs to manifest integrity in the business processes it supports — drawing from the underlying integrity of the hardware and software platform, middleware, systems infrastructure and application design.