Ever striving for competitive advantage, organizations frequently turn to
information technology. This quest - and the numerous technologies and
architectural approaches adopted to maximize the value of the information
captured in IT assets - has resulted in a collection of frequently
incompatible systems and technologies. Organizations find themselves with an
accidental IT architecture that limits organizational communication and
effectiveness and that should be integrated into a cohesive vision for IT to
deliver maximum value to the organization.
Successful implementations of the latest approach for integrating the
enterprise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), are characterized by high
degrees of service sharing (that is, driving the maximum number of consumers
to a given service). The higher the degree of service sharing across
projects, departments, and appl... (more)