UML-based Model-Driven SOA development enables organizations to work with an interoperable, reusable, and fully modular set of development components. Users can selectively address their individual service application objectives and requirements with the workflow and process of their choice.

Overall, SOA provides a number of benefits to the enterprise and its development organizations:

• Empowers rapid application development by assembling existing services
• Creates high return on investment due to multiple reuse
• Promotes platform-independence
• Enables access to legacy service components via the Internet and other shared communications networks
• Enables access to decentralized data at near real-time speeds