| Enterprises need to execute their respective IT strategies in a planned manner, accounting for their short, medium, and long-term business needs. IT architecture is a crucial part of this process at many levels. At the highest level, it helps translate IT strategy into a set of technology principles and standards that need to be adhered to by all applications in the enterprise—and by all solutions under consideration. It is also a big factor in making actual build-buy-adapt decisions for various application components, based on knowledge of the enterprise's existing application portfolio. Oracle Financial Services Consulting offers consulting services in defining architecture and strategy, and enables financial institutions to migrate their legacy infrastructure to an SOA environment. A special area of focus is service-oriented architecture (SOA), which we view as a key architectural direction for the financial services industry. In this area, Oracle is developing methodologies and service and process models that can accelerate the successful adoption of SOA in an enterprise. Our belief is that the key business benefits of SOA can be achieved only when one adopts an end-to-end process perspective. | 
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