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DeltaLounge blogger Peter Paul shares his thoughts on the results of a recent Forrester survey.

"Today, many COTS applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel are service enabled, "writes Red Roomer Richard Ward. "By using a services approach, application customisations, extensions and integrations can be built in a decoupled (loosely-coupled) manner. In other words service orientation can directly address the issues of customisations and extensions that are traditionally tightly bound to the application database schema and integrations that are point-to-point and heavily scripted, thereby facilitating smoother and cheaper application upgrades."

"Software people may describe enterprises in terms of version numbers," observes Veryard, "but how do business people describe enterprises? Usually by comparing with something else."