This paper discusses the business case for the service oriented architecture (SOA) investment - "it provides the dynamic capability to create innovation for managing change and empowering competitive advantage."
Maximize your SOA investment paper discusses the following:
- business imperatives underlying SOA
- drivers in the Dynamic Business Ecosystem: Inflection Point Dynamics, Darwinian Survival, Competitive Advantage, and Stable Systems Drag.
- a new managerial strategy, Sense and Respond, that enables an enterprise to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment through Service Orientation.
- Adaptive Enterprise using SOA can overcome technology-imposed challenges to facilitate business value
- actions to begin a successful SOA journey.