In an SOA, however, services are defined at a broader, more abstract level — for example, a business process such as generating a phone bill. This is called coarse granularity. Message-oriented ...

Finally, SOA is a long term solution. No ROI will come soon for the majority of enterprises that leverage SOA approaches and technology, thus the value will be understood in years, not months. This is ...

SOA, the concept, will be with us for a long time -- long after SOA the buzzword does not get as much play in the press. I was at an analyst roundtable this afternoon at the Software AG Innovation ...