Paul Kalin

Enterprises today face increasing IT complexity and cost due to the natural evolution of the application infrastructure. Business is demanding more flexible and sophisticated solutions for discrete business functions that can adapt with evolving market demands and business processes. The need for integration infrastructure has resulted in a legacy of patchwork enterprise application integration (EAI) approaches that have hardwired enterprises for particular business functions and increased IT complexity. However, there is promise that this detrimental trend will reverse through the adoption of Service Oriented Architectures. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) community promotes agility, interoperability, asset reuse and re-factoring and greater information insight. But why are some organizations claiming huge successes and demonstrable ROI while others cite fa... (more)