When toby redshaw, a VP with motorola Inc., looks at many IT infrastructures―his own company's includes enterprise resource planning applications from oracle and SAP, engineering apps from Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics, supply-chain capabilities from i2 Technologies, data marts built with Informatica's tools, internally crafted code, development toojs, and webMethods' middleware―the image that comes to mind is a bowl of spaghetti. Not exactly a blueprint for business agility. Motorola is working on a new architectural design that uses Web services to make the pieces fit more neatly. If the company is successful, functionality will be introduced not only more quickly and cheaply, but with increased potential for reuse in novel ways, including by Motorola's customers and business partners. Apps also will be more closely tuned to the business processes they support.
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