White Paper Abstract:
The pressure to deliver real-time information across the enterprise is unyielding. Whether because users demand information in a particular format or at a particular time, or because regulatory oversight and corporate governance require a single integrated view, or simply because the pace of business outstrips the ability to deliver IT services at an acceptable cost, the task for enterprise IT is to build an application infrastructure that can scale and evolve, all at costs lower than today. Clearly, one solution is to drive virtualization, which can do wonders at the infrastructure layer. Equally clear is that IT needs a solution to address the problems of managing distributed business processes.