Today more than ever, growth and the very survival of your business depend on agility. Agility to adjust to changing market and competitive pressure by rapidly adding new features or capability to an existing offering. Agility to quickly introduce a new innovative product, service or functionality to your customers, partners, or internal users. Agility to respond to your competition encroaching on your customer base.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the technologies that large enterprises are adopting to help facilitate business agility. SOA holds the promise of accelerating application development in support of new business initiatives while at the same time reducing the overall cost of delivering these new products or services. To deliver on this promise, however, SOA-based applications must be effectively monitored and managed.

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