Read this paper to see how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure - in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in traditional application architecture. The paper also discusses the new elements which are necessary for an IT infrastructure to support SOA and shares IBM's experience and recommendations to help you meet the new availability, performance, security, and management challenges.
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