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The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona Technologies.

To run a successful business, companies must address market challenges and implement changes to stay competitive in a dynamic global market place. Real-time business agility is the key to business success.

Nortel is pursuing development of communications-enabled applications, which combine IT and communications in newfangled application types, and would like to see standards set to provide consistent behaviors.

Retail giant Woolworths has added business process management (BPM) capabilities to its supply chain redevelopment program.

In an effort to educate the IT and business leaders about the strategic role of business process management (BPM), John Wiley & Sons has added BPM Basics For Dummies to its stable of well-known For Dummies series of books.