With power comes responsibility. The promise of Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) offers significant opportunity for service reuse and the realization of
a fully integrated enterprise. But left unchecked, the flexibility enabled by
an SOA will result in a Wild Wild West of enterprise IT. To properly harness
the power of SOA while delivering value for the enterprise, certain controls
are essential. Incorporating service discovery, service security, service
management, and policy governance in a ubiquitous and transparent framework
is essential to the success of any enterprise SO... (more)
A mid-sized on-premise ERP software company has used Salesforce.com to manage
its sales process for two years. As a rapidly growing, recently public
company, the manual processes used to manage sales and fulfillment that were
originally more than adequate showed signs of strain:
Account reps complained that they had to re-key the same order data into four
separate forms/applications. The ... (more)