SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks or services. But pursuing SOA on an ad hoc basis can drastically reduce its benefits. This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles.
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