Abstract:
Today in the on demand market, organizations try to achieve competitive
advantages using information technology (IT). Nowadays organizations in addition to
managing their internal operations use information technology to collaborate with their
clients and suppliers. Organizations try to use enterprise applications for these. Moreover
organizations expect technology to cooperate with their changing on demand needs. IT
faces challenges in integrating different systems into functions that can address
organizations' needs on demand and span across organizational boundaries. Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) as architectural frame work addresses the problems in the
previous enterprise applications. This paper discusses the key challenges experienced by
enterprise applications during its development and necessities of Service Oriented
Architecture in the enterprise integration. This paper also discusses service-oriented
architecture implementation challenges in enterprise integration.
