Service-Oriented Architectures and Virtual Enterprises

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Author(s): Nicolaos Protogeros (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-799-7.ch161

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / E-Commerce

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This article presents some trends in e-commerce technology and more specifically the service-oriented architectures (SOA) and its interoperability promise applied to innovative organization schemes such as virtual enterprises (VE). The evolution of software architectures from traditional to SOA is presented through comparison of characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and problems and difficulties in applying the SOA, while also focusing on the compatibility between SOA and modern organizational structures. The main focus is on the SOA technology trends of modern organizational structures with regards their formation and integration. The comparison between SOA and traditional Architectures provides a clear path to their adoption in various cases.

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