Agility, on an organizational level, refers to efficiency with which an organization can respond to change. Increasing organizational agility is very attractive to corporations, especially those in the private sector. Being able to more quickly adapt to industry changes and outmaneuver competitors has tremendous strategic significance.

Before understanding how SOA can bring the agility to your organization, you need to get an idea of where the present complexity is and how it is effecting the agility in your organization. Some of the factors that effects agility are:

1. Technology :

We generally spend months and years to get our IT systems stabilized. We bring in a lot of software and different versions of them into out network. Sometimes for every new functionality we need, we may have to get a new software product. In the end we may face a situation where in it is difficult to find the skilled people to work on those systems. Hence the technology we use to implement our business is complex.

2. Business Process:

If you have a complex business system, obviously the implementation is complex. Many times we realize this complexity only when we started to implement it. Business functionality also contains conflicting elements due to different perspectives or applications.

3. Integration

We tend to use and combine functionality from existing systems/applications. Even if our individual systems/applications are working good, when we integrate them is a complex work and surely we get many issues.

4. Maintenance

After we go past the technology. business and integration complexities, we need a way to manage this complex environment. Updating the components we used to implement out business logic and adding new functionality is always a tedious task.

SOA can help addressing all these issues of complexity. SOA is more agile in order to react as quickly as possible to changing business environments and offer new services to customers, suppliers and partners.

    • SOA can be understood without any knowledge technology used to implement it.
    • SOA decomposes large systems into services and application frontends.
    • The granularity of the service is well suited to gain a high level understanding of the entire system.
    • SOA encourages the reuse which streamlines the code and reduce redundancies.
    • in SOA every service is documented, which add the comprehensibility of SOA

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