Semantic SOA - IT Catalyst for Business Transformation

Bhavin Raichura, Rajat Kumar
2007 Americas Conference on Information Systems  
In today's competitive world, a key to success in business is "continuous-innovation". Apart from introducing new products and services, business is forced to continuously innovate and adopt new business models to survive, compete and get leading edge over others. From IT perspective, in rapidly changing world of technology, it becomes a great challenge to facilitate these innovations economically, efficiently and effectively, overcoming "time-to-market" and "technology-shelf-life" constraints.
more » ... Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is considered as the key technology enabler to address these challenges and achieve improved business -IT alignment. However, in many of the B2B, B2C, EAI and BPM scenarios, improving efficiency (xxii, xxx) and effectiveness through dynamic integration and runtime process automation remains a key bottleneck in SOA implementation. Semantic SOA is about applying ontology to the SOA, which empowers enterprises with automatic service discovery, dynamic integration, and runtime process automation capabilities and acts as an IT catalyst for business transformation. In this paper, we will cover the key shortcomings of SOA, business value of Semantic SOA and how standards and technology can help to realize Semantic SOA.
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