40 Minutes

In today’s enterprise environment, growth is king.

To facilitate growth, executives must listen to the marketplace, as well as their customers and partners and adapt strategies to wring value from constantly changing conditions.

But if processes are to keep pace with executive decision-making, the old paradigm of IT manually automating individual, monolithic processes must evolve.

Instead, IT must facilitate system heterogeneity and reusability, not only within the enterprise, but with an expanding number of partners, customers and distributors.

To gain that completive advantage, IT must go beyond today’s B2B applications and processes and marry them to service-oriented architectures.

We interview Russell Scherwin to gain Sterling Commerce's perspective on Multi-Enterprise SOA.