This paper can help you more efficiently meet your investment objectives as you plan for and deploy an SOA as well as deliver ongoing benefits as you extend SOA across your enterprise solutions.

From an executive perspective, five key best practices for a successful deployment consistently emerged from within the ten domain categories, including the need to:

• Develop an architecture with a vision for the future.
• Foresee linkages from IT to your business processes.
• Create an organizational culture and skills to support SOA.
• Build a scalable infrastructure.
• Enable operational visibility through governance and service management.