What do you mean by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? How cloud services get benefitted by SOA?

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 Service-oriented architecture (SOA)  

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a software development model for distributed application components that incorporates discovery, access control, data mapping, and security features. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a software development model for distributed application components that incorporates discovery, access control, data mapping, and security features.


The use of services provides major benefits:

  • In contrast to the use of large applications, which tend to be “information silos” that cannot readily exchange information with each other, the use of finer-grained software services gives freer information flow within and between enterprises. Integrating major applications is often expensive. SOA can save integration costs.
  • Organizing internal software as services makes it easier to expose its functionality externally. This leads to increased visibility that can have business value, for example, when a logistics company makes the tracking of shipments visible to its customers, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing the costly overhead of status inquiries.
  • Business processes are often dependent on their supporting software. It can be hard to change large, monolithic programs. This can make it difficult to change the business processes to meet new requirements (arising, for example, from changes in legislation) or to take advantage of new business opportunities. Service-based software architecture is easier to change – it has greater organizational flexibility, enabling it to avoid penalties and reap commercial advantage. (This is one of the ways in which SOA can make an enterprise more “agile”.)

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