These replicable components will help increase the speed of delivery of services and lower the cost for customers who would otherwise have to buy custom-built components, said Matt Porta, head of the Global Business Solution Program at IBM's Business Consulting Services.
The Global Business Solutions Center will be in charge of enhancing IBM's portfolio of replicable components across 17 industries; IBM already has about 50 such components across those industries. The company plans to invest $200 million a year to develop and market replicable components.
SOA is enabling IBM to go a lot further in building replicable components than it could before, according to Porta. The company can now create code for a business process that can be reused with business applications from various vendors and for multiple clients, Porta added.
