Welcome to the third episode of the Software Architecture Microsoft Platform mini course. It's about architectural and service-oriented patterns.

We all know that object-oriented patterns have revolutionized the object-oriented world of software. They have helped software engineers and developers a lot. Gains in productivity and quality are just a few examples of that. More foreseeable results is another.

Architectural service-oriented patterns can do all that too. In fact, they can do even more. They can help you achieve Software-to-Business Alignment. And that's what every business manager wants, or at least should want.
In this episode you'll learn about business architecture. You'll learn how to align your software architecture to that business architecture. You'll also learn about 8 architectural service-oriented patterns, each one based on the idea of software-to-business alignment.

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