Don't let your IT be a barrier to the business

The services oriented architecture (SOA) and the business process management (BPM) tools are considered to be the driving factors for the software development in line with business requirements and time frames. A sensible and sustainable approach on the hardware infrastructure side include the standardization of platforms and providers, and improving the utilization and access to the infrastructure by using virtualisation of servers and storage. Flexibility is about getting away from the business processes hard-wired into systems, and the companies are required to start building a set of re-usable service on components for their core business functionality. The achievement of IT flexibility demonstrates the ability of the management and the governance discipline. The major packaged ERP system providers are adopting BPN functionalities, and support the SOA to provide more business centric flexibility in their ERP systems.