| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | enterprise service-oriented architecture | serviceorientierte Architektur für Geschäftsanwendungen (The SAP blueprint for services-based, enterprise-scaled business solutions that offer increased levels of adaptability, flexibility and openness required to reduce total cost of ownership) |
| comp., MS | Service Oriented Architecture | serviceorientierte Architektur (A software architecture that uses policies, practices, and frameworks to enable application functionality to be provided and consumed as sets of services. These services are published at a level of granularity relevant to service consumers) |
| gen. | service-oriented architecture SOA | serviceorientierte Architektur SOA |