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Service-Oriented Architecture: A Business Perspective
Business Agility as a Driving Force
One of the most important issues for businesses these days is the ability to create new structures and processes with minimal effort, that is, to achieve business agility [SW03]. There are many reasons why business agility becomes increasingly important:
Businesses must cope with a rapidly changing business environment that requires changes in days and weeks rather than months and years.
Businesses must deal with their customers’ expectations for more services and less time needed for performing existing services.
Businesses often try to decrease costs and increase their productivity. This also implies a constant pressure for change.
The demand ...
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