This great collection of case studies from around the world and across a variety of industries shows how clients are achieving success and getting real value from their SOA deployments, regardless of their stage of SOA adoption. These real world SOA stories demonstrate 'Smart SOA', a set of guiding principles developed from the deep experience and knowledge IBM brings from working with over 5700 customers using our SOA offerings.

SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports integrating business processes as linked, repeatable tasks, or services. Now that SOA has clearly moved into the mainstream as way to align IT and business strategy, these case studies can show how to learn from proven approaches and knowledge gained from experience.