Therefore, no point-to-point connections are necessary,
and the internals of the headquarters systems remain intact. Business processes are
composed and executed at a higher semantic (abstract) level.
Expected Results and Added Value: The Business Perspective
The deployment of a business intelligent semantic service-oriented architecture to
a multi-national, franchising firm, which requires several business transactions and
information exchange, provides significant benefits to the firm, including:
??? common access to all relevant information and functionality (interoperability),
due to semantic networks and the common service registry (in place of ???hardwired???
point-to-point connections),
??? better quality of business services, due to standardization in service descriptions
and publishing,
??? business process reengineering (BPR) and analysis opportunities, due to
changes that FUSION will bring in the very nature of business,
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