For most companies, employing the latest technology is vital to staying
competitive. For some companies in fact, service orientation is a key pillar
of business success. As the chief architect of a Fortune 100 company, my SOA
challenges aren't small.
A little more than a year into our SOA deployment project, we already have
pure SOA applications running in our environment. As the world's largest
technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and
logistics company, we rely on automation to power our international supply
chain fulfillment site. Through it, we offer solutions and services to
approximately 170,000 resellers in 150 countries by distributing and
marketing hundreds of thousands of IT products worldwide from nearly 400
suppliers. Many small t... (more)