Enterprise Integration Opportunities and Challenges

SOA is not Dead! This book is about Enterprise Integration. Enterprise Integration is a big challenge. We cannot simply get rid out of legacy systems and replace them with complete new systems. Even if we managed to control this for our environment, there is no simple recipe to communicate with external systems. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that plays important role in integrating heterogenous enterprises systems. This book highlights SOA from new perspectives, that is e-Learning and University Management Information Systems. Book author has wide knowledge in such area. Utilizing SOA to integrate both systems presents a real life case study that makes SOA an answer to different questions that arise from readers. Book presents methods to integrate different technologies within e-Learning domain, like Mobile Information Agents, and Web 2.0. Book highlights the important integration of Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA. SOA based Course, and Assessment Management Systems are presented. Utilizing SOA opened the gate to different new learning activities, as highlighted within the book.