The true beauty of the whole endeavor is the fact that many of these business services could be created by adapting legacy code to work within a SOA. IT started with the most common sales-oriented business processes that can be used across different products and across subsidiaries and created business services for them. They stripped the business process down to just the essential information needed for that service to function and then made sure to reuse that stripped-down version in as many other business services as possible. (Currently there are about 70 of these services percolating through Helvetia Patria. Talk about more bang for the buck!)