Imagine
a business model that commends centralized management and control over a widespread
enterprise-domain operation that spans multiple continents. Would centralized business control
satisfy organizational strategy goals and imperatives? Centralized control is feasible, but it is not
the only management control system that can provide efficient integration solutions. An enterprise
that must globally execute business should consider decentralized management strategies. (Additional
material on control is provided in the following sections.)
Take, for example, a foreign exchange trading company that operates on multiple continents.
Currency rates and bids and offers must be updated and transmitted promptly to all
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continents and simultaneously distributed to all trading floors. How can service-oriented business
integration offer viable solutions and contribute to such global market transactions?
The major hurdles that service alignment efforts can face in a transcontinental distributed
integration environment are mainly collaboration and interfaces with consumers and peer services.
This requires that service integration strategies must offer global solutions on the continental level,
and they must also resolve alignment and synchronization challenges that may occur within inner
regions and local domains.
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