Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing - Increased Federation

SOA Service Oriented Architecture

Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing - Increased Federation

A federated IT environment is one where resources and applications are united while maintaining their individual autonomy and self-governance. SOA aims to increase a federated perspective of an enterprise to whatever extent it is applied. It accomplishes this through the wide spread deployment of standardized and composable services each of which encapsulates a segment of the enterprise and expresses it in a consistent manner.

In support of increasing federation, standardization becomes part of the extra up-front attention each service receives at design time. Ultimately this leads to an environment where enterprise-wide solution logic becomes naturally harmonized, regardless of the nature of its underlying implementation