VCSTIMELESS Newsletter - Retail' UP

SOA architecture? Agility, organisation, anticipation!
IT is continually evolving. If the 70s are remembered as the decade of the head office system, the 80s the decade of the client/server and the 1990s the internet decade, this decade will be remembered for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). And rightly so! SOA separates IT processes which makes them more adaptable to the speciality retail industry.

So what took so long? The concept is so obvious: in a fast-moving world market, organisations need information systems which are adaptable and interoperable.

According to Wikipedia, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a computer systems architectural style for creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle. It defines and provisions the IT infrastructure to allow different applications to exchange data and participate in business processes. SOA separates functions into distinct units (services), which can be distributed over a network and can be combined and reused to create business applications.

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