The Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE) is a new model for architecting software and I.T. infrastructure. It works in concert with current platform architectures as well as enables next generation process-driven architectures.
At its heart, the SOE employs the use of a Service Network in order to achieve certain Objectives. The Service Network introduces the concept of interface ubiquity which enables the same base communication mechanisms to be
The SOE brings interoperability and agility to the forefront of system design. A major theme for the SOE is to assume that the system will have integration requirements from the beginning, rather than adding them on later as an afterthought.
A Process Driven Organization treats its business processes as a portfolio of valuable corporate assets. Business Process Management techniques are used to explicitly define and execute processes in a manner that creates significant benefits.
The fundamental shift made by a Process Driven Organization is that business processes are built for agility and they are liberated from the IT applications that support them.
