Overview:

SMBs are moving forward with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with great gusto. In fact, 50% of SMB participants in Nemertes Service Oriented Architectures and Applications benchmark have already implemented SOA and 50% of those who haven't, plan to. In fact, many organizations may already have SOA and don't know it since for many, SOA arrives via an acquisition of a new application. This presentation reviews SOA - both an architecture and an application development methodology -from the unique SMB perspective. Topics discussed include: SMB adoption plans, challenges, benefits, budgets, scope of implementations and overall strategic vendor choices.

Author(s): Ted Ritter, CISSP, Research Analyst, Nemertes Research

Keywords: SOA, SMB, SaaS.

Vendors mentioned: Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, SAP and IBM.

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