SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable,
flexible, and open IT architecture for developing
services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions.
With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation,
SOA moves IT architectures to higher
levels of adaptability -- and moves companies closer
to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating
Web services to an enterprise level.
An enterprise service is typically a series of Web
services combined with business logic that can be
accessed and used repeatedly to support a particular
business process. Aggregating Web services into
business-level enterprise services provides a more
meaningful foundation for the task of automating
enterprise-scale business scenarios.
