Spring-based Architectures - Parleys - Parleys.com - a Belgian J. How Google Works. The news today is grim on several fronts, as recession fears continue to grip world markets. If plunging markets and an economic slowdown weren’t bad enough, it became official that General Motors is no longer the world’s largest auto manufacturer.
While it hasn’t lost the title entirely, its new sales data shows it’s in a dead heat with Toyota. Odds are, as many industry analysts have predicted over the past several years, Toyota will overtake GM and retain the new leadership mantle with ease. At the same time, Apple’s financial data shows iPod sales slowed. While the company famous for its Mac computers and the iPhone sold more of the personal music players in the last quarter than ever before, the increase in year-over-year sales slow to its lowest point since the gadget was introduced five years ago. Part of what’s behind the rise—and fall—of these giants is innovation and the failure to keep innovating.
GM built its business on a tried-and-true model of fixed obsolescence. InfoQ - Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise softwar. Mule - Home. Service Provisioning Through ESB. As per "the boundary-less organization" invented by " Jack Welch in General Electric, organizations should not only be boundary-less, but should also be made permeable. "Integrated information" and "integrated access to integrated information" are two key features any enterprise should aim for in order to improve organizational business processes.
A boundary-less organization isn't one without boundaries; it means that there's smooth and efficient flow of information across boundaries. While enterprise portals and web services gives a new face for this emerging paradigm, the skeleton of this "open enterprise" is provided by open IT infrastructure and the flesh is provided by emerging trends in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) practice. Thus " is the use of software and architectural principles to wire together a set of services. Figure 1.