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 2008, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I23/1108-4.asp The success of any IT initiative could be measured in terms of the actual business goals that it fulfills. However, when it comes to SOA based projects, it becomes imperative that such an initiative bears close correspondence with the business requirements as SOA is usually an enterprise-wide activity. In order to achieve this required alignment, it stands necessary that before starting off with the service-oriented analysis phase, a high level view of required SOA needs to be in place that ensures that the subsequent analysis phase concentrates on business processes. Business process analysis offers matrices that help in drawing a correspondence between business goals and high level services. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-wkhattak.asp#When:17.11.08