For globally integrated enterprises, SOA is a preferred method for delivering sustainable agility. As a business-driven IT architectural approach, SOA supports integrating the business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. This flexible approach allows organizations to update or reorchestrate or even incorporate new tasks to meet changing business conditions without rebuilding their systems.

The most successful organizations -- those transitioning to global integration -- implement SOA with a focus on business value and use tested and proven techniques. They are partnering with vendors who will help them realize and maximize their returns.

With significantly more experience than other vendors and the largest market share, IBM is uniquely positioned to embed guidance based on real customer deployments into SOA -- what we call the Smart SOA™ approach.