Does SOA work in your environment?

Because an SOA, or service oriented architecture, tends to take root in an organization, it quickly becomes integrally connected to all surrounding systems. Because of this, it can be difficult to determine if the architecture itself is achieving its intended goals, including efficiency and ROI. If SOA accomplishes its goal of allowing you to share resources and reuse components, how is that reflected in the ROI?

For analysis on what makes SOA successful, and whether measuring its success is even possible:
- read the analysis at TechNewsWorld.com