White Paper Abstract:
This document discusses how to extend SOA beyond the perimeter through high-performance service access controls, deep content inspection, and alignment of people and processes for sustainable growth XML services (XML, Representational State Transfer [REST], Web services, and Electronic Business using XML [ebXML]) continue to gain momentum as the most efficient and flexible architecture for real-time system-to-system integration. The largest automobile manufacturers are finding that XML-based services are flexible and cost-effective mechanisms for connecting dealer networks. Financial services institutions are expanding their market reach by reducing the costs of integrating their services with employers' portals, increasing growing total revenue while improving their profit margins. Loyalty companies are enabling real-time points-based e-commerce to enhance the value of loyalty programs and increase revenues. These are a few of the many examples of enterprises that have achieved significant business gains by extending XML-based services across the perimeter, often as their first foray into XML- and standards-based SOA.