A Microsoft-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables IT professionals to design flexible systems that can be adapted rapidly to meet a company's changing business needs and priorities.

To help your developers improve success rates and rapidly deliver high quality, secure solutions and dynamic, data-driven applications, Microsoft provides a tightly integrated software development platform. This platform enables you to participate more successfully in a broader Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) strategy, increase team collaboration and productivity, and improve software quality. It comprises an integrated server with a single data store, featuring built-in collaboration and quality tools to assist your entire development team, as well as a common development framework for Web services, rich client applications, smart devices, and more.

The Microsoft platform provides a secure, scalable foundation for application development. Developers working in this consistent, interoperable environment can take advantage of the rich user interface for exposing business data—in a familiar format that people can use straight away. The platform also provides a comprehensive set of servers, clients, and tools designed for rapid and effective application development. By making it easier for your organization to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, you can significantly boost agility and responsiveness.

Today, your business needs data management systems that make it easy for your people to find and analyze information. The Microsoft Data Management Platform offers the scalability, availability, easy administration, and built-in business intelligence that can reduce the complexity, cost, and time it takes to manage and access data―without compromising security. A scalable and integrated database platform can help securely store and manage ever-increasing amounts of data from disparate sources, and it can help ensure that business-critical systems and applications stay up and running. IT complexity and total cost of ownership can be reduced through dramatic enhancements in administrative automation.