Businesses turn to SOA to address the challenges associated with changing markets, increased competitive pressures and evolving customer needs. Many of these organizations are struggling to manage this loosely-coupled architecture as it represents a fundamental shift in the way custom applications are designed, developed and integrated. When SOA is managed improperly, organizations are unable to deliver enterprise applications as modular business services, limiting service integration and reuse.

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