Rewiring For Global Integration: Connecting The Electronics Value Chain With Soa

Forces in the electronics industry, marked by heavy global competition and extremely short product lifecycles, are driving more electronics companies to be more globally integrated. Global integration enables electronics companies to position themselves as highly efficient and unified enterprises, and true global integration impacts the full spectrum of their value chain. IBM believes that technology-enabled collaboration, facilitated by the adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), is a key to allow for increased collaboration within the enterprise and business ecosystem.