Where to Start: Service Oriented Architecture Is a Reality But How Should You Take Advantage of It?

Over the last two decades, CIOs have found themselves locked in a vicious cycle. Maintenance takes a bigger bite out of IT budgets each year, which means less money is available for developmental upgrades. Without developmental upgrades, maintenance on outdated systems only masks larger problems. Now there is a way to end the cycle: Service oriented architecture offers a low-cost way to integrate, update, and manage new data, applications, and processes in current legacy systems.