Real World SOA is grounded in creating SOA solutions for specific business problems quickly, by using skills and products that are already familiar - and incrementally, by delivering timely solutions that align with your existing business goals. Thousands of customers have responded to this perspective on SOA - beginning to realize business value, and drive new projects and initiatives forward each year.
SOA is no longer something available to only the largest enterprises - it has become part of the mainstream development community and is being deployed by customers of all sizes. Today, businesses can easily develop new user-centric composite applications, reusing services deployed across platforms (built with different tools by different vendors in different languages).
This demonstrates the types of rich and varied solutions customers can achieve with a 'real world' SOA approach. This mainstream view of SOA, powered by familiar Microsoft technologies, lets customers shift their investment to more value-added development of applications and processes.
