Information and Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services: Enabling Integration and Organizational Agility

Competitive organizations are facing a variety of problems as a result of advances in management techniques as well due to the delay in the introduction of these in business management models. One of the biggest and critical problems for competitiveness in the globalised market is the creation of a technological infrastructure for real-time decision-making. But the combination of technologies, such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services (WS) and Information Architecture (IA), promises to revolutionize the way in which organizations compete, speeds up decision-making, and take leverage of market opportunities. However, these technologies still face challenges that need to be overcome. Based on the literature review, the scope of this article is to discuss the main issues and the development of organizational modeling technologies, and presenting an online and real time business architecture framework.