Embedding Change Management Into Your Service-Oriented Architecture Development Strategy

A major shift in information systems and business solutions development is now under way: a move from application-centric to services-centric computing, also known as service-oriented architecture. Nowadays' technology environment is one generally oriented toward the applications that support the services of an organization - that is, its business and technology capabilities. Tomorrow's environment, by contrast, will be one where the dominant technology architecture enables organizations to orient themselves directly to the services, assembling and integrating them as reusable building blocks.