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......Paradoxically this intersection of the CIOs role and that of system analysts is what is driving the next generation of IT architectures, featuring a more service-oriented and modular architecture that can more easily align with the business strategies or organizations, with early adopters using the modular or meta-systems as defined by (Keller, 1999). Much has been written specifically on the topic of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and their ability to quickly respond to market conditions for businesses (Keller, 1999), (Mann, 2002), (Worthington, 2001) and many others including (AMR Research et.al.) and (Gartner Group et.al.). At the heart of so many of these discussions is the building blocks of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA for short) and their development of composite architectures complete with meta-systems that have the potential to map to business needs, according to( AMR Research, 2005). This is a very strategic view of what is becoming a very complex subject, and the core of the discussion is today on Web Services, SOAP, and the era of the composite application structure (Gartner, 2004). Collectively these technologies are used by systems analysts in the context of development methodologies including the SDLC, which is described later in this paper, to complete new development and

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