Achieving Business Flexibility in SMBs using SOA

Topic: Achieving Business Flexibility in SMBs using SOA

Time: 11.00am

Date: Live Wednesday 21 February 2007

Duration: 60 minutes

Description:

The vast majority of industry experts predict that the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow rapidly over the coming year. It’s not surprising why. In essence SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.

For those who have already implemented SOA within their organisation, satisfaction levels seem high; such companies point out that not only have they experienced improvements in how their business is run but they also expect to use more of it.

However, like most of the cutting edge business transformation technologies in use today, a perception has grown that SOA is really only applicable and appropriate in large enterprises and that trying to establish SOA in small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) is difficult, time consuming and with little discernible benefit. Such a way of thinking is simply not true. This webinar will aim to highlight just why SOA are wholly appropriate for SMBs.

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