Architecture & Design for Application Agility

摘要

The extremely dynamic, competitive, and global business environment has dramatically increased the rate of change in businesses resulting in mergers and acquisitions, building of alliances, increased pace of product and service development, and marketing innovation. To succeed in this hyper competitive environment corporations are increasingly focusing on design, architecture, optimization, and management of their intra and inter organizational business processes. They are also looking for capabilities to dynamically monitor, change, integrate and fine tune inter-and intra-organizational processes in a very short period of time without significant efforts and involvement of their IT staff. Unfortunately, in this environment IT is often looked upon more as a road block than the enabler of change. One of the major reasons for this is the slow pace and high cost of integrating and changing IT applications. These problems are inherently rooted in the way IT applications are architected and designed.