SOA integration is rapidly becoming the strategy of choice for organizations wishing to pursue integration of disparate IT technologies into one highly-functional, enterprise-level platform in order to gain flexibility, operational efficiency, and business agility. It begins with choosing a platform to tie all of an organization's IT technologies, portal and web services together. Key things to look for when choosing such a platform include process and service structure components; “hot pluggability” (the ability to be deployed in tandem with various software from major vendors such as IBM); and the ability to provide centralized management and end-to-end, enterprise-grade security. It delivers distinct benefits to an organization: Business services across platforms, independence from being tied to a particular location, independence from being tied to one particular system or network, authorization and authentication support, and dynamic search and connectivity to other services. These factors positively affect the streamlining of mergers and acquisitions, the reduction of IT costs, and the visibility and control of an organization's key business processes.

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SOA training is rapidly becoming one of the technology market's most highly sought-after skills, as those who have it have the expertise vital to linking legacy technology systems with current, cutting edge technologies to create combined systems, and who also have the ability to determine what an organization's clients want and how best to deliver it. IT is generally broken down into two parts:

1) Certification, including formal testing procedures, which allows IT professionals to attain and practice a variety of levels of competency and provides vendor-agnostic, end-to-end training and;

2) Seminars and workshops, which reinforce key concepts and topics, and are generally composed of hands-on exercises.

The process of SOA integration has five distinct stages:

1) Opportunistic, where simple projects that can be quickly completed are identified, generally building on an already established application;

2) Tactical, where users have more than one set of applications to work with and are beginning to use BPEL technology to integrate them into one system;

3) Strategic, which is where the focus begins to shift from technology to organizational changes and logic;

4) Enterprise, which is where pervasive measurement and improvement mechanisms track key performance indicators so that operations can be optimized even further; and

5) Industrialized, where real-time feedback is used to continually adapt to changing global market and economic conditions.

SOA J2eee is an industry standard Java application server, which is easily scalable to include web and portal applications to fit an organization's specific needs while using a minimum footprint. Its versatility makes it the performance leader as well as a complete, low-cost solution for developing and integrating enterprise-level Java and Web applications into an organization's systems and processes.

Specifically because of its extreme flexibility and adaptability, and the relatively low costs of installation, implementation, and system maintenance, SOA integration is fast becoming the strategy of choice in today's rapidly changing markets, especially in the telecommunications, financial services, system integration, and resource industries.