While many Fortune 500 companies are using service-oriented technology and practices in production, few are actually able to realize a positive return on their service-oriented investments. The industries that have, including financial services, telecommunications, energy, insurance, and healthcare, have taken a pragmatic approach that is based on knowing that a successful SOA infrastructure initiative depends upon SOA quality.

What does "SOA quality" really mean?

The white paper Foundation for SOA Quality attempts to not only answer that question but it also examines the many facets of SOA quality. The paper  discusses the importance of design-time and run-time governance as it relates to SOA quality, the key role that cross-team collaboration plays in quality, the core elements for building a SOA quality foundation, and much more. Read this paper and learn how you can ensure that your SOA or distributed, service-based IT initiative, such as Web 2.0, cloud computing, ESBs, messaging, and business process management (BPM), can deliver interoperability and service reuse, and allow you to respond to change, quickly and cost-effectively.

LEARN MORE! Register to get additional SOA quality resources including the white paper Team Collaboration in Development,  the E-book Key Strategies for SOA Testing, co-authored by David S. Linthicum and David Bressler, and the white paper Agile Load Testing. These additional resources will help you accelerate service-oriented development and improve the quality, performance, and compliance of your service-based applications.