Bringing SOA to Small Enterprises
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Rob Hailstone - Published 05/11/2007
At the recent Butler Group and OASIS conference on SOA standards and their impact on Public Sector organisations, one of the speakers described the initiative being taken by Japan’s government to use SOA to increase the number of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that conduct direct B2B electronic commerce. Some 99% of all businesses in Japan fall into the Small or Medium category, and currently only 8% of these have the capability to conduct B2B electronic commerce. The government’s target is t…