What is a Service-Oriented Enterprise?
What really differentiates a Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) from a traditional business model is its “outside-in” approach. A SOE creates business-driven value by defining and exposing its core business processes to the external market through the use of open technology in the form of “services.” This reorganization includes new business requirements, new operating zones and new license structures that can enable improved collaboration between organizations and their customers and suppliers. A SOE has the capability to organize its responses to market shifts due to the agility within its culture, processes and IT systems.
