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An unpredictable state for enterprises becomes chronic in business environment, urging them to restructure for excellent capabilities in offense and defense. Overall optimization by establishing and merging rapid recognition, decision-making and implementation is essential.

Meanwhile, enterprise IT is expanding, becoming more complex and rigid, and radical IT reform for rapidly responding to business trends is another critical issue.

The need for EA, BPM and SOA is increasing to improve this situation. Efforts targeting SOA in Japanese enterprises are moving from consideration to implementation, and advances and expansion toward BPM have been seen, with an increasing number of advanced enterprises seeing the effects of SOA and BPM application.

At SOA Summit 2008, we present recent trends, issues and practices around EA/BPM/SOA and related areas for building agile capability in both offense and defense.