http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2009, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I33/1009-2.asp Transforming an organization and leveraging the possibilities of a service-oriented enterprise approach is a huge challenge. Notwithstanding the organizational impact, businesses find themselves moving away from monolithic applications and start to deal more with ubiquitous services which has huge consequences on IT organizations. Thankfully, there exists an array of literature, websites, articles and books by IT-practitioners dedicated to this subject. Unfortunately however, these resources mostly deal with it from one perspective and that is that of the procuring organizations, i.e. organizations that utilize IT capabilities to deliver on business goals. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-rschelven.asp#When:06.11.09 http://www.soamag.com/I23/1108-3.asp For many companies in the telecommunications sector, SOA adoption is essential to their growth and survival. This article explores the integration of concepts associated with SOA and service-orientation into a typical telecom enterprise by explaining how key SOA characteristics and principles tie into the typical telecom organizational structure, leading to an opportunity to define business services and establish a Service Solution Set Inventory (SSSI) as the foundation from which services can be repeatedly composed into aggregate applications. Along the way, we will explain some basic terminology related to distinguishing core from context processes and differentiating between the various types of clients and consumers that acquire service-oriented systems. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-rschelven.asp#When:17.11.08