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Business and technology alignment represents the extent to which an IT enterprise and its automated systems can mirror and evolve in alignment with the business.

Service-oriented computing promotes the abstraction and accurate encapsulation and expression of business logic in services. This supports business and technology alignment.

The pursuit of business and technology alignment can be supported by the collaboration of business analysts and technology experts during analysis and modeling phases.

In order for an IT enterprise to increase business and technology alignment, its business analysts must become more technical and assume the responsibilities

Establish a technology architecture with a fixed scope and purpose that remains unchanged, regardless of how the business may need to change over time.

Avoid establishing a technology architecture that will need to be replaced in the near future when it no longer adequately fulfills business requirements.

Leverage new technological innovation in order to maximize the fulfillment of business requirements.

Establish a technology architecture that can stay in alignment with how the business may need to change over time.

The design standardization of service contracts helps increase interoperability between services.

Design standardization can introduce organizational and cultural challenges because it requires that the design standards be regularly enforced.

The design standardization of service contracts helps avoid the need for transformation technologies.

Design standardization is not relevant to the design of service compositions. It is only relevant to the design of individual services.

The governance burden of services is not impacted by the SOA project delivery approach.

The bottom-up approach to SOA project delivery results in less up-front impact, but will usually increase the eventual governance burden of services.

Alternative approaches exist that provide a compromise between bottom-up and top-down SOA project delivery approaches.

Up-front analysis as part of a top-down SOA project delivery approach helps reduce the eventual governance burden of services.