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Building an Agile Enterprise With Service-Oriented Architecture

Overview In response to the increasingly critical nature of business applications, IT organizations must be responsive to business requirements while containing costs. Business applications can be extremely complex, cutting across every technology in the IT infrastructure. Organizations often face 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. Industry analysts tout SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) as the best way to protect IT investments and simplify application integration, resulting in reduced costs, shorter development cycles, and overall productivity gains for the IT organization.

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Publisher	Borland Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management

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