[service-orientated-architecture] SOA-compliant

[Teresa Jones]

I'm currently looking at a CRM product that the vendor claims is
'SOA-compliant' yet it is also claimed to be an n-tier architecture. A
quick search on the concept of SOA-compliance brought up this article:-
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/engineering/archives/my-soa-compliant-toaster-and-cell-phone-7362
which was quite fun!
I suspect that the CRM vendor concerned actually means that you can
integrate with it using web services....
Question for the group - can an application be regarded as
SOA-compliant? Or is that rather a meaningless phrase?
thanks
Teresa