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Realising business value from an integrated service-oriented architecture system in a multivendor world. - Avoid common pitfalls when integrating across your enterprise

Overview Most analyst surveys agree that close to half of the companies around the world today are already investing in functional deployments, piloting, or seriously considering a service-oriented architecture (SOA) system. Businesses need to reduce time to market, improve business alignment for growth, and do a better job of unlocking valuable information within an organization. An SOA environment, with its emphasis on reusability and flexibility, is often the optimal answer for many companies.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Service-Oriented Architecture

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