Integration Challenges

A lasting integration solution should address the top integration challenges and offer

• Better compatibility between applications

• Agility i.e the ability to adapt—the essential attitude to embrace change

• Integrated business processes that give you visibility into information across multiple systems

• Integrations that are easy to maintain and less risky to evolve, and that doesn’t break with upgrades

• Support for open industry standards, along with product functionality, operational (administration) effort, and maturity

• More-flexible configurability with less customization

• Lower ongoing maintenance and support costs

• Speed deployment by reusing components

• More responsiveness & faster service

Organizations adopting SOA will typically carry out frequent changes in response to business requirements. These changes can consist of reorganizing business processes, assembling new applications from existing business services or rewiring existing business services or applications, changing the logic of (potentially heavily reused) elementary services