Today's business environment is changing rapidly. Business dynamics and
technological innovations have left organizations with a disparate mix of
operating systems, applications, and databases - making it difficult, time
consuming, and costly for IT departments to deliver new applications that
integrate heterogeneous technologies. The key to success in the networked
economy is not only being able to create business processes to automate value
chains, but also being able to modify these processes as business
requirements change. Innovation in enterprise architecture will come from
service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM).
Enterprises must rethink their IT infrastructure and begin to implement an
SOA and BPM. The combination of BPM and an S... (more)