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Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications

Overview The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement SOA, makes any business functionality available over the Internet. Another technology that promises to extend that agility to business users is Business Rules Management (BRM) systems. A BRM gives business users direct control over the business logic, allowing them to change it without much intervention from IT. This paper explores how these two technologies - SOA and BRM - promise to help businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, ROI - TCO, Service-Oriented Architecture

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