ERP Suites and SOA: The Emperor's Old Clothes (AMR Research)

Oracle and SAP are both trumpeting new service-oriented architectures (SOAs) thatwill revolutionize how customers work with ERP suites. Both vendors’ marketingdepartments have a history of getting ahead of development, leading to charges aboutthe emperor’s new clothes. SOA is different. In this case, the change isn’t asrevolutionary as the new and improved hype would indicate. And, depending on yourgoals, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.