This document provides an overview of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It defines SOA as a logical way of designing a software system consisting of loosely coupled services that communicate with each other via standard interfaces. The document outlines key SOA principles like loose coupling, interface-based design, and discoverability. It also discusses service types, composition and orchestration, and technologies commonly used to implement SOA like Web services, XML, WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP.