Toward the Realization of Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management.

The article discusses strategies and technologies for adapting business processes to business goals. Enterprise software systems tend to be monolithic and inflexible. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers some improvement but introduces issues of its own. The author presents an "enterprise phys...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 40; no. 11; pp. 57 - 64
Main Author: Kaiser, Matthias
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Nov2007
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