1.0 - Preface

The Chief Information Officer Branch (CIOB) of the Treasury Board Secretariat is providing guidance on the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture for the Government of Canada (GC SOA). The goal of this guidance is to have departments adopt a common approach to the emerging standards and models of Service Oriented Architecture. SOA is a useful approach to GC program design, strategic business planning as well as systems design; it is not simply a technological advancement. It is also a means of achieving the GC goals for service modernization, horizontal service delivery and greater interoperability. 

This document is part of a series related to the GC SOA. Collectively the GC SOA series provides CIOB's overall direction on behalf of the Government of Canada with regards to the adoption of Service Orientation.