"It's unlikely than an organization will strictly choose one path or the other when it comes to SaaS and software services that are built in-house. Every organization will likely continue to have a mix of existing applications, SaaS subscriptions, and now through SOA, a collection of reusable components, Web services and business processes," said Sandy Carter, vice president of SOA and WebSphere strategy at IBM.
Organizations large and small are increasingly able to make use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS), employing a mix of in-house, on-premise, vendor-supplied and hosted on-demand applications and platforms to meet the need for fast, flexible application development and deployment, as Part 1 of this series illustrates.
These two related means of deploying Web services to end users aim to enable organizations to streamline business processes and manage the flow of information throughout their companies faster, more flexibly and more securely than ever before.
