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Bring the World of IT Applications & Communications Together with SOA

Bring the World of IT Applications & Communications Together with SOA
By John Bednarek
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March 21, 2008 04:00 PM EDT
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-driven concept based on a style of architecture that uses loosely coupled services and components to support the requirements of business processes and users. It is evolutionary in terms of its distributed computing approach (software running on multiple platforms) and modular programming style.

The value of SOA is in its ability to create "building blocks" of functions or services that can be rapidly and cost-effectively connected into the existing business infrastructure. Previously, software programs were written as monolithic, closed, integrated programs. The addition of each new feature impacted the entire program, requiring a full program test for each program code update. SOA's distributed computing approach and modular programming style avoids this by creating "building blocks" of functions or services that can be connected.

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John Bednarek is responsible for Nortel's global SOA product marketing strategy, driving its Communications-Enablement Strategy across Nortel's enterprise and carrier businesses. He is a seasoned business professional with over 20 years of product marketing, business development/alliances and sales experience in the networking and software industry - delivering, marketing and selling products and services ranging from embedded systems to total system solutions for targeted markets. John earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with honors, from Carleton University.

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