Transforming an enterprise business to Service Oriented Architecture includes obtaining standardized service contract, service reusability, service abstraction, service loose coupling, service compos ability and so on.

Of course SOA is an architectural model agnostic to technology PLATFORMS and every enterprise can pursue the strategic GOALS associated with service-oriented computing using different technologies. However in the current MARKETPLACE, Web Services are probably the technology PLATFORM that better suits SOA PRINCIPLES and are most used to get to this architecture.

Transforming an enterprise business to Service Oriented Architecture includes obtaining standardized service contract, service reusability, service abstraction, service loose coupling, service compos ability and so on.

Of course SOA is an architectural model agnostic to technology platforms and every enterprise can pursue the strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing using different technologies. However in the current marketplace, Web Services are probably the technology platform that better suits SOA principles and are most used to get to this architecture.