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SSA Open Architecture: A Practical Path to Agility in a Demand-Driven World

Overview SSA Open Architecture is SSA Global's enablement of a service-oriented architecture. It is designed to help to preserve the applications and technology investment while evolving the systems toward the ideal of increased agility. It does this by leveraging commodity and standard technologies and taking full advantage of the strategic partnerships with leading IT vendors, including IBM and Cognos. Organized around four service tiers - people-oriented services, decision services, business process services, and application services - SSA Open Architecture provides a consolidated framework for aligning IT with the business objectives.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	SSA Global Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	ERP, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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