Beschrijving

An introduction to managing business flexibility using Service Oriented Architecture strategies and techniques. Service Oriented Architecture can make a business more flexible, able to respond much faster to change. Of course flexibility is a very broad concept and the SOA can respond in many different ways. Demand for business flexibility therefore needs to be understood and managed in a systematic manner and treated as a functional or non functional requirement with appropriate business involvement. This report provides a framework for identifying and delivering the various types of business flexibility that SOA can deliver and shows how these may be achieved and measured. In the process the report provides clarity on what an SOA really is for a large enterprise.