This is the second in this series of articles about ' Motivation factors for adopting SOA'

In the previous article, we discussed. how AGILITY can drive the business when SOA is in place. In this article, we learn about how SOA reduce the costs in an Enterprise.

Earlier on this blog, we discussed the key concepts of the SOA as Services, interoperability and loose coupling. These are the factors that do the cost saving and a motivation factor for using SOA in an organization. These cost cuttings/savings will be at both Business level and IT infrastructure and maintenance level. At business level the cost savings will come from the Agility.

Many times even though a product is cheaper we will go for it as it was difficult to integrate into our existing system. SOA solves this problem since it is loosely coupled and interoperability. This it allows you to choose the cheapest product that can offer the same kind of functionality and stability.

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