SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA): IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS CURRICULUM Leon Kok Yang TEO, School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, leon.teo@rmit.edu.au David Wee TEH, School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, david.teh@rmit.edu.au Brian CORBITT School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, brian.corbitt@rmit.edu.au Abstract Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as a popular approach and paradigm for organizations to gain competitive advantage via managing their software applications and IT infrastructure as a set of interacting services. As the SOA market value is posed to increase to 10.3USD billion (WinterGreen-Research, 2009) by 2015, it is crucial that IS schools in Australia are providing the relevant industries with competent IS professionals that possess the necessary skills and are capable of understanding the impacts/implications of SOA deployments in order for them to design and create services of value. This paper examines the organizational and technological impacts/implications on organizations and discusses the skills and knowledge required by SOA-IS professionals and compares these with the requirements with the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) common body of knowledge created for accreditation of Australia university curricula. Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture, SOA Implications, IS Curriculum, IS Education 1286