CHAPTER   17

Services Viewpoint

The world is changing at an ever faster rate. Traditional methods of architecting both business functions and software functionality cannot keep up with the pace of this rapid rate of change. The luxury of crafting custom functionality in systems to tailor them to an enterprise’s specific needs is being overtaken by investment in commodity software. Enterprises are either changing business processes to adapt to the software or customizing the software to fit the business. Internal software development must also be leveraged. A change in the style with which traditional requirements-driven monolithic software was being developed is occurring. In this style of architecting, functional capabilities are implemented ...

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