Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help organizations boost business performance while reducing IT costs and enhancing the flexibility of business processes.  
In today's competitive global markets, companies are under pressure to achieve high performance through improved productivity, faster time to market, greater flexibility and a more effective workforce. Achieving these goals requires them to make more effective use of IT—posing huge challenges for CIOs to deliver simpler, more flexible systems at a lower cost of ownership. This must be accomplished despite the fact that corporate IT systems are heterogeneous, with multiple products across multiple platforms. Accenture believes that SOA holds the key to meeting these challenges—a view shared by many of the leading analysts. SOA is a services-based approach for designing and building flexible IT solutions, easily combining legacy and new technologies. It enables business process components to be assembled and orchestrated efficiently and rapidly, giving businesses the agility to respond to changing business conditions and delivering distinctive business services. For internal IT organizations, it enables simpler systems that are cheaper to run, can be modified easily and integrate better with other platforms. In this way, SOA provides for success in today's business conditions while also enabling the flexibility required to sustain that success into the future—a key driver of high performance. Learn More Watch Accenture's SOA experts discuss how an effective use of SOA can be the key to enabling business goals and help organizations on their journey for high performance. Accenture overtakes IBM as the leading systems integrator. Read why a Leading Market Research Firm Identifies Accenture as Worldwide Systems Integration Leader. Listen to Accenture's experts through a series of podcasts talking about the latest developments in SOA—and discover how they can help you achieve high performance. Accenture announces moves to help clients unleash the full potential of SOA. Watch Accenture's CTO Don Rippert and David Nichols, Global SOA Lead talk about initiatives like the new R&D lab and SOA implementation blueprint or read the press release. Read our brochure and learn more about how Accenture can help you unleash business potential through SOA. [PDF, 1.1MB]
PDF Help Learn more about the benefits of using SOA to transform your business processes. Related Research and Insights Recent Accenture research shows that high performers are twice as likely as their competitors to use SOA. Read The Business Case for SOA and convince the rest of the C-suite that SOA holds the key to high performance. Read all the opinion pieces written by Accenture experts that explore the implications of service-oriented architecture in specific industries. Next: Why Accenture |