The only constant in today’s marketplace is change: fast-paced, continuous and often complex, driven by new opportunities, threats, products, technologies, regulations and channels. In order to stay competitive, businesses need to be able to perceive, react and adapt to these changes continuously. They need to be flexible and efficient—in short, they need to transform themselves into Agile Enterprises with highly adaptive, integrated business models, from front-end to back-end to supply chain, with business models based on highly adaptive system architectures.

Our definition of an Agile Enterprise is:

"An organization that has the ability to execute its business processes on an automated, end to end basis and the flexibility to change those automated processes as the business drivers change."

Unfortunately, most businesses are plagued with legacy applications designed organically for discrete outputs. They are not quickly adaptive, and redesigning or just patching them to fit each new business driver can be expensive in time, people and money.

Fortunately, a Service Oriented Architecture and Composite Application approach to system design and architecture can help improve agility, be more cost-effective, and help businesses adapt continuously to change. These approaches can help businesses increase revenues and maximize ROI on their system and overall business infrastructures.

Our approach to building the Agile Enterprise includes Service Oriented Architectures as the architectural foundation, and composite applications as the enabling technology

As the Architectural Foundation for the Agile Enterprise, Service Oriented Architectures:

• Enable the enterprise to think in terms of business function, rather than systems capabilities
• Provide a conceptual view of applications and their constituent parts
• Allow packaging of automated functions with flexible connections
• Enable reuse of components in more than one application
• Enable reuse and repurposing of legacy systems without internal code changes

Composite Applications as the realization of the architecture:

• Facilitate reuse/reintegration of existing systems
• Enable business process flow through stove pipe systems
• Allow incremental development of new functions, while managing and minimizing risk

Network Effects can help companies from the very largest down through the mid-market with customized, value-driven and priced engagements that fit your needs and budgets.

Let Network Effects help transform your business into an Agile Enterprise.