simple difference of soa and saas

1. SOA vs SaaS

2. SOA
• SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is a
methodology for automating and designing
business process.
• Also technologies designed to reduce IT costs of
supporting business operations.

3. • Services designed can in a SOA can be
deployed or be classified to a SaaS model.
• communications basically are typically over a
network.

4. SaaS
• SaaS (Software as a Service) is simple as a
software delivery method.
• Is hosted remotely on the provider’s server
• Can also be a public cloud.

5. • Can also be a private cloud where employees do
all their work.
• Typically accessed by users via thin client in a
web browser.

6. • SOA basically focus on reusability,
composability, loose coupling and statelessness
while simply SaaS is a model for sales and
distribution of software applications. Simply
mean that SaaS way to deliver softwares and
SOA is architectural model in which unit of logic
is a service. :)

7. References:
• wikipedia.org
• differencebetween.com