Many organizations believe that implementing an ESB is the path to achieving a successful SOA. While an ESB provides many capabilities useful to a successful SOA implementation, it does not provide all required capabilities. Businesses are then often at a loss to determine their next investment to increase their overall SOA performance and capabilities.

This white paper discusses the steps necessary to enhance the effectiveness of an SOA. Discover the critical role reference architecture and its associated interfaces play in improved SOA performance. Explore an open standards based SOA reference architecture and gain insight into the common capabilities required by a robust, SOA infrastructure implementation. Learn how to achieve an open standards-based reference architecture to provide interoperability in a multi-vendor environment.