Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Concepts
SOA provides access and interaction with relevant statewide informational
assets (information/content, applications and business processes), of
selected agencies, boards and commissions.
Current business processes cross the boundaries of business applications and
services within state agencies, boards, and commissions. Information
Technology has been the bottleneck on being able to cross these boundaries
which hinders the next step of automation delivery.
SOA is a layer of service components that coalesces application and
information assets from agency applications into useful and reusable service
enterprise components thereby increasing business value.
Portal technologies and agency web services bring together a variety of
business processes and functions multiple from state agencies, boards and
commissions which furthers the implementation of cross-enterprise projects.
The argument for SOA is to increase customer and citizen power, provide
direct access to systems through service components that increase
functionality and process by building flexible IT systems.
