Service oriented architectures and composite applications hold out the promise for a brave new world of applications development, deployment, and reuse that many proponents believe will usher in unprecedented levels of Return On Investment (ROI) for a domain that has long suffered from cost overruns and excessive, often unjustified expenditures. The ability to lower the cost of integration while improving the leveragability of key software and business process assets are only a few of the reasons why the ROI of service-oriented architectures and composite applications is thought to herald a new economic reality for IT and business development.
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