2005 EDOC: Meeting the Challenges of Enterprise Computing

W ith advances in services computing technologies and infrastructure, there are increasing demands for ubiquitous access to networked services to support enterprise business processes.An enterprise service refers to an application component that provides either some e-business functionality or information to accomplish some business task through Web and wireless technologies. An increasing demand for interoperable applications exists, sparking the real-time exchange of data across borders,applications,and IT platforms.To perform these tasks, enterprise computing now encompasses a new class of ground-breaking technologies such as Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA); business process integration and management; and middleware support, like that for utility, grid, peer-to-peer, and autonomic computing.Enterprise computing also influences the processes for business modeling, consulting, and service delivery; it affects the design, development, and deployment of software architecture,as well as the monitoring and management of such architecture.