Here I explain, what the Business and Technology Alignment goal is and why it is so important in an service oriented architecture.

What is the Increased Business and Technology Alignment goal?

This goal expresses the extend to which automated systems should mirror and evolve with the business. Through the collaboration between business and it experts during analysis and modeling phases, service abstraction is promoted and Business and Technology Alignment is achieved. Further more through partitioning business logic into business services, those can be repeatedly combined and augmented to be flexible to business change.