Andrew is President and Chief Architect of Aptaria, a consultancy dedicated to helping medium and large-size organizations realize the potential of on-demand computing through the use of Software-as-a-Service offerings such as Salesforce.com and cloud-computing offerings such as Amazon, Google and AppNexus. Aptaria assists organizations service-orient their enterprises with the application of Webservices and Integration technologies. 
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: Accoun...Apr. 13, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,706
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...
