| Yhteenveto: | This thesis deals with challenges in Service Oriented Architecture adaptation at the
enterprise IT level.
Today s IT managers are phasing very rapidly changing world in terms of the business
and technology side. The Service Oriented architecture (SOA) has been one of the
latest hot topics. Many articles have been written but still limited numbers of
companies have used the SOA in the mission critical solutions. Software vendors are
promoting the SOA and many parallel standardization efforts are progressing.
This paper investigate the challenges the companies are facing when starting to use
SOA for legacy application integration. An overview of SOA is given and relationship
of SOA to EAI and Web Services. In the SOA adaptation challenges, the new
technology adaptations challenges, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services challenges were studied based on the
written material. One of the major conclusions was that the challenges are not just
technology related but many organizational issues were brought up.
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