More than likely you’ve heard quite a bit about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it holds the promises of quicker response to market trends, improved customer services and lower application development costs. From an infrastructure perspective, an SOA implementation contains all the same pieces and parts as your traditional environment.

In this paper, you will learn how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure—in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in a traditional application architecture.