Success with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires identifying and specifying the right set of services. Most existing analysis approaches are not up to the task and make it difficult to achieve the promised results of SOA.

As SOA transforms the enterprise architecture, traditional techniques for analysis must be enhanced to match the unique needs of service orientation. For instance, achieving reuse requires adding an enterprise vs. purely application focused perspective. Achieving process agility requires the use of techniques that match services to the business functions that make up enterprise processes.

Additionally, as part of the move to services, analysts can play a greater role in bringing IT and business closer together.

- Issues with applying traditional analysis techniques to SOA environments

- How Service Oriented Analysis fits into the software development lifecycle

- A methodology for Service Oriented Analysis, including a step-by-step review of the process