SOA

SOA

1. Users are more technologically savvy

2. The Internet and social media have empowered end users

3. The rise of powerful, affordable mobile devices has improved the accessibility,

4. End users have become innovators

5. the expectation of end users, their future hope, and the promise for better information systems

6. SOA offers

   • Empowerment of the end user
   • Openness of the Information System to the public
   • the adoption of a variety of interoperable technologies
   • Lightweight SOA technologies

7. Services

   • The user-centric development has revolutionized the development world by introducing new concepts
   • In fact, there is no need to master a programming language to be able to create a new application
   • To create intuitive, easy to use and self-explanatory development environment,
     • Goal composition: The end user point of view
     • Goal Patterns-based suggestions
     • Semantic & Form-based data mapping
     • No prior knowledge of the entire composition design

8. Customers can access data and applications anywhere in the world on demand

9. the Cloud Computing emerged as one of the most important area

   • Web Services technology and SOA allow managing Cloud services
   • distributed storage for backup and world-wide data access