Service-oriented enterprise: Taking the next step beyond agility in the digital economy

Abstract

In the digital economy, every enterprise has the tendency of becoming an intelligent enterprise and, through the means of innovational information technology solutions, of gaining competition advantage on the market. At the same time, management and service-oriented technology and principles caught the attention of researchers with the purpose of finding new methods to increase the enterprise agility. At present there are some problems regarding the transition to service-oriented architecture and the management of service-oriented enterprise. The study analyses the impact of service-oriented architecture on enterprise and some aspects regarding agile architecture for the service-oriented enterprise as an important factor in the economic development of enterprises within the knowledge-based society. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.