It's Sun's view that software evolution, not revolution, is the best approach for maintaining ROI and building effective business practices. The Services on Demand vision provides obvious technological benefits to customers, due to its open and evolutionary approach. Additionally, and most importantly, it ties directly to a company's bottom line business goals. Anytime, anywhere, anyone, any device services for your communities. Different customers, depending on their industry, their leadership, and other factors, are in different phases when it comes to leveraging software to tap their information assets.
Every phase starts in some shape or form with local software applications.
There are companies that are still in this phase of software use. They are buying applications written for specific functions, installing that software, and integrating it with all the other software in their current environment. This was appropriate for the well-known, closed environments, which used to be quite prevalent. But these application designs can only stretch so far. And when it comes to opening up software to other companies, other computers, and other networks of computers, monolithic apps can add a lot in integration costs and maintenance.