SOA filling the Gaps

Electronic Social Networking Services like Facebook are very popular.The distinction between Social  Networks services and similar Business services like Linkedin are not clear. Businesses use Facebook for commercial purposes and sometimes Linkedin users use it for social purposes. The identity of services such as Twitter is not clear as well: it is used for commercial and for social purposes.  Usage of Social Networking Services in an Enterprise context is not as simple as using it in a Consumer context.   Google's Steve Yege's post  published incidentally to an external Google+ circle instead of internal circle (including only Google's employees), is an illustration of issues facing an Enterprise using a Social Networking Service. The differences between Enterprise Social Networking Services are similar to the differences between SOA Services (Enterprise context) and Mashups (Consumer context): Management and Security are essential in the Enterprise cont...

On May 2010 SAP acquired Sybase . According to my post titled: Acq uisition is not simple: SAP-Sybase acquisition agreement , buying Sybase was not a great idea. If you would like to know why you can read my post. Today (December 3rd 2011), SAP buys Successful Factors the provider of Cloud-based human resource management software, for  $3.4bn in cash . This time I would not argue that it is not a good idea. Actually the last paragraph in my post about Sybase acquisition was titled: Which type of company I would acquire if I were Sap's CEO? Believe it or not, I recommended that "a successful SaaS applications company could be an adequate acquisition target".  According to Financial Times , SuccessFactors Human Resources (HR) SaaS applications provider has 5 millions subscriptions at more than 3,500 companies worldwide and it is believed to be the second largest Cloud-based  provider of  Enterprise software after Salesforce.com . Lars Daalgard, SuccessFactor...