Is SOA the future for Businesses?

Is SOA the future for Businesses?
With more are more people in the UK willing and sometimes demanding the ability to work from home, threats of terrorism, global warming, fires and flooding occurring on across the globe, SOA or Service-Oriented Architecture looks set to be the way forward.
So what is SOA?
In simple terms SOA are software applications, in many ways similar to regular software products, such as Microsoft Office, however these SOA services are developed to work in a web browser. This means that there is no longer a need for, or to have the responsibility for managing servers or the other costs involved in running your applications.
Most Financial Directors are already aware that the cost of buying software pales into insignificance when it compared to the costs of buying and supporting the necessary hardware involved, then you have the additional cost of maintenance and upgrades, sometimes the list just goes on and on. With SOA besides the obvious connection to the Internet, there are no extra costs involved.
The main advantage of SOA is the freedom to work any time any place anywhere, no matter where you are, as long as you have internet access, in a cybercafé even, you can access all of the important information that enable you and your staff to do their jobs effectively, just the same as if they were in the office. This freedom also provides additional protection against business failure in the event of disasters, from the increasingly common burglary and theft, all the way through the spectrum to flooding and other environmental disasters, which can and do strike anywhere and everywhere.
With products such as Tallia http://www.tallia.co.uk coming to the market that can manage your Accounts, CRM, eCommerce and ERP and soon even POS systems, SOA can also improve your profits through increased sales and improved customer service levels, because now all your staff wherever they happen to be have access to exactly the same up-to-the-minute information that you have in the office.
With the growing increase in staff wanting to, or needing to work from home, SOA is providing the means to make this possible, in fact with easy online storage space and the features now available in products such as Tallia, why have an office at all? In reality most businesses need the physical presence that an office provides, however, by enabling remote working, significant savings can be made by reducing the size of your accommodation.
Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company reports that:
“By 2008, SOA will be a prevailing software engineering practice, ending the 40-year domination of monolithic software architecture”
and also: 
“Through 2008, SOA and web services will be implemented together in more than 75 percent of new SOA or web services projects.”
With bold statements like this and rising property and council tax figures, it looks like SOA is the way forward for successful and profitable businesses.