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Getting ready for an Enterprise SOA |
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| Abstract |
In the current business climate, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a potentially attractive solution for helping enterprises to become more flexible achieve the vision of a collaborative and process centric organization. Designed from a services perspective and implemented as a set of loosely coupled systems, a SOA can help enterprises integrate disparate applications. However, most deployments of SOA to date have involved the reuse of custom-built application components and deployment of service oriented infrastructure. This has required a significant change in application development practices and management structure. The return for such projects has struggled to overcome the costly initial investment.
Service Oriented Architecture will become more compelling when enterprise applications that support critical business processes are service enabled, and applications can be composed and then recomposed using services that are taken from these proven enterprise applications as well as those which are custom developed. This paper highlights the significance of the SAP NetWeaverŽ platform in helping organizations moving to an enterprise-grade service-enabled architecture.
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