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:: Web Services and SOA News ::
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Pilot SOA/BPM Tools Now! Wait Until 2009 to Implement in Mission-critical Processes: AMR Study
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In a new survey by AMR Research, it has been revealed that although SOA/BPM tools are maturing rapidly, companies focused on adding unique business processes to their enterprise applications will find major differences in complexity and development effort between the vendors and must plan accordingly.
AMR said in its report that the major platform and applications vendors have been hyping the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for several years, but most of manufacturing and retail firms did not know what was SOA. It goes on to add that unlike most of the SOA pioneers cited as references by vendors, manufacturing and retail companies, interested in exploiting that investment and not developing custom software, have built an IT landscape around a major ERP suite, such as Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) or SAP. For these companies, the value of SOA will be found in business process management (BPM), which promises to allow companies to create unique and differentiating business processes on top of the same software many of their competitors use.
To meet this promise, these tools must allow business analysts and developers to collaborate closely on developing and iteratively improving the new business process. In order to effectively assess SOA/BPM toolsets, AMR Research presented the major vendors with a supply chain business process and asked them to show us how their tools would be used to implement it.
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[Thursday, August 23, 2007]
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