External and internal are relative terms. It depends on a company, but many large companies having several departments have well defined interfaces between departments (in appearances anyways. :-)) Well, we could say internal to the department, to section, to group, to team, to a person? :-)
One of the goals of SOA is to better align business and IT. If we are talking about just applying SO on a business side, what is the goal? What is the difference between it with BPR? H.Ozawa --- In [email protected], Nick Gall <nick.g...@...> wrote: > > While SO may not be a new concept for some businesses EXTERNAL > relationships, it is a NEW concept for internal relationships. For example, > even though most banks have seen themselves for many years as > financial *services > *companies on the outside, they have failed to apply SO on the inside. > > So it IS a new concept for how to organize the INTERNAL capabilities of the > enterprise for MOST businesses. > > -- Nick >
