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Service oriented architecture (SOA) simplifies IT projects and enables business agility. It is an IT architectural style that supports integrating your business as a set of linked services. What do we mean by a service? It is a repeatable business task, such as checking a potential customer’s credit rating or opening a new account. The task can be orchestrated into current and future business processes.

Many companies today are already adopting SOA and realizing meaningful benefits, but the most agile and globally integrated organizations are taking it to the next level, employing the IBM Smart SOATM approach. With this approach, the continuum of challenges faced by an organization is matched to a continuum of SOA responses -- from basic to advanced. This means that the adoption of SOA technology evolves along with the innovation of business models, and that the transition to an agile, globally integrated enterprise can occur in incremental stages. SOA succeeds by decoupling the physical implementation of a software component from its representation or interface. In this way, the service definition and its interface can remain stable for as long as the business requires, shielding them from lower-level technology changes.