Case Study: One path taken toward SOA

There's been more than one prediction about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and why its bound to take off in the next year or so. Yet there aren't very many real-life examples to learn from and that's why the U.S. Department of Defense's SOA effort is such a valuable project to keep tabs on. The DOD's U.S. Transportation Command, which handles worldwide sea, air and land transportation for the nation's armed services, distributes goods to every corner of the defense enterprise, from fuel to food to personnel. Such a supply chain requires efficiency for every step and that's why its moving to a SOA enterprise environment. Officials say that the command's current 600 IT systems require a massive upgrade despite that hurdle, the agency is very optimistic for a successful architecture revamp. 

For more on the massive SOA effort:
- read the case study at BPM Today