A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service-Oriented Architecture

In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition.
The solution is business integration. Combining business process management (BPM) and a service-oriented approach to IT management, business integration promotes efficiency and automation across all processes, ensuring that existing IT assets support actual business processes and new IT investment is focused on maximum return. Although simple in concept, business integration has historically proven difficult to implement; however, with today's service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based approach—which puts business and IT on equal footing—and Oracle solutions and expertise, this doesn't have to be the case. By employing the strategies outlined in this white paper, organizations can ensure a graceful, gradual, and successful transition to complete business integration.